Lamentations 3:1
I am the gever that hath seen affliction 1 by the rod of His wrath. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
In Context
2He hath driven me away, and brought me 1 into choshech, but not into ohr. 1
Cross References
Psalms 71:20Thou, which hast showed me great and severe tzoros, 1 shalt revive me again, 1 and shalt bring me up again 1 from the tehomot (abysses) of ha'aretz. 1
Psalms 88:15Hashem, why castest Thou off my nefesh? 1 Why hidest Thou Thy face from me? 1
Isaiah 53:3He is despised and chadal ishim (rejected by men); 1 a man of sorrows, and acquainted with suffering; 1 and we hid as it were our faces from him; 1 he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 1
Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the sod (company) of merrymakers, 1 nor rejoiced; 1 I sat alone because of Thy yad; 1 for Thou hast filled me with za'am (indignation). 1
Jeremiah 20:18Why came I forth out of the womb 1 to see amal (trouble, toil) and sorrow, 1 that my days should be consumed with shame?
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? 1 Consider, and see 1 if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, 1 which is done unto me, 1 wherewith Hashem hath afflicted me 1 in the Yom Charon Af (day of His fierce anger). 1
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 →