Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
In Context
2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Cross References
Psalms 71:20Thou, who have shown us many and great troubles, will revive us again, and will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Jeremiah 15:17I did not sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor did I rejoice. I sat alone because of thy hand, for thou have filled me with indignation.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought upon me. Therewith LORD has afflicted in the day of his fierce anger.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:1
The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the two foregoing chapters, but the composition is somewhat different; that was in long verse, this is in short, another kind of metre; that was in single alphabets, this is in a treble one. Here is, I. A sad complaint of God's displeasure and the fruits of it, ver. 1-20 . II. Words of comfort to God's people when they are in trouble and distress, ver. 21-36 . III. Duty prescribed in this afflicted state, ver. 37-41 . IV. The complaint renewed, ver. 42-54 . V.… Read the whole commentary →