Lamentations 3:1
Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
In Context
2Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
Cross References
Psalms 71:20How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth :
Psalms 88:15Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?
Isaiah 53:3Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.
Jeremiah 20:18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?
Lamentations 1:12Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke 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 →