Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:5

5 He hath builded against me , and compassed me with gall and travel .

He hath not builded with me increasing my prosperity, and protecting my houses, but he hath builded Forts and Batteries and Castles, (military buildings) to batter down my Walls and Houses, Isa. 29.2, 3.

Or with Poison, Venom and Misery (as some translate it) and it seems more proper than gall and travel, which have no cognation one with another. We are not well acquainted with the ancient Dialect of other Countries, the sense is obvious, God had surrounded them with misery and Calamities.