He hath builded against me,.... Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans against the city of Jerusalem, in which the prophet was:and compassed [me] with gall and travail; or "weariness" ; the same with gall and wormwood, La 3:19; as Jarchi observes.
The sense is, he was surrounded with sorrow, affliction, and misery, which were as disagreeable as gall; or like poison that drank up his spirits, and made him weary of his life. Thus our Lord was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; perilupov, encompassed with sorrows, Mt 26:38.
The Targum is,"he hath surrounded the city, and rooted up the heads of the people, and caused them to fail.'