Lamentations 3:1
I, the one who am writing this, am a man who has been afflicted/punished [MTY] by Yahweh because he was angry.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
In Context
2It was as though he caused me to walk in a very dark place without any light at all.
Cross References
Psalms 71:20You have caused me to have many troubles and to suffer much, but you will cause me to become strong again; when I am almost dead [HYP], you will keep me alive.
Psalms 88:15All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am ◄in despair/very discouraged► because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
Isaiah 53:3People will despise and reject him. {He will be despised and rejected.} He will endure much pain, and he will suffer much. Because his face will be very disfigured, people will not want to look at him; people will despise him and think that he is not worth paying any attention to.
Jeremiah 15:17When the people were carousing together, I never joined them; I sat alone, because you [MTY] are the one who controls what I do. I was very angry with those people because of their sins.
Jeremiah 20:18I have continually experienced much trouble and sorrow, and I am disgraced now when I am about to die; why was it necessary [RHQ] for me to me born?
Lamentations 1:12You people who pass by, you do not [RHQ] seem to care at all about what has happened to us. Look around and see that there are no other [RHQ] people who are suffering like we are. Yahweh has caused us to suffer because he was extremely angry with us.
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 →