Lamentations 3:1
[ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction || By the rod of His wrath.
Literal Standard 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 causes to go [in] darkness, and without light.
Cross References
Psalms 71:20Because You have showed me many and sad distresses, || You turn back—You revive me, || And from the depths of the earth, || You turn back—You bring me up.
Psalms 88:15I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, || I have borne Your terrors—I pine away.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised, and left of men, || A Man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, || And as one hiding the face from us, || He is despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Jeremiah 15:17I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, || Nor do I exult, because of your hand—I have sat alone, || For You have filled me [with] indignation.
Jeremiah 20:18Why [is] this? I have come out from the womb || To see labor and sorrow, || Indeed, my days are consumed in shame!
Lamentations 1:12[Is it] nothing to you, all you passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, || If there is any pain like my pain, || That He is rolling to me? Whom YHWH has afflicted || In the day of the fierceness of His 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 →