Lamentations 3:1
ALEPHI am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
New Heart English Bible
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 caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Cross References
Psalms 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles,you will let me live.You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised,and rejected by men;a man of sorrows,and familiar with suffering;as one from whom men hide their face, and we despised himand we did not value him.
Jeremiah 15:17I did not sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
Jeremiah 20:18Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me,with which the Lord has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.MEM
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 →