Lamentations 3:1
I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Updated King James 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 brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Cross References
Psalms 71:20You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall restore life in me again, and shall bring me 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 is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD has afflicted me in 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 →