Lamentations 3:1
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
In Context
2Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
Cross References
Psalms 71:20Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth;
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom [men] hide their faces; despised, and we esteemed him not.
Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, whom Jehovah hath 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 →