Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
In Context
2Me hath he driven out, and led into darkness, but not into light.
Cross References
Psalms 71:20Thou, who hast shown me great distresses and misfortunes, wilt again revive me; and from the depths of the earth wilt thou bring me up again.
Psalms 88:15(88:16) I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and shunned by men; a man of pains, and acquainted with disease; and as one who hid his face from us was he despised, and we esteemed him not.
Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mirthful, and was rejoiced; because of thy inspiration I sat solitary; for thou hadst filled me with indignation.
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore was this that I came forth out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should pass away in shame?
Lamentations 1:12“I adjure you, all that pass this way, behold, and see if there be any pain like unto my pain, which hath been inflicted on me, wherewith the Lord hath aggrieved me on 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 →