⁵ He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

¹⁵ Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

⁸ He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

²¹ They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

¹⁵ therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

⁷ He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

⁸ Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.