Lamentations 3:1

Modern

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

Traditional

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Literal

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath;

Latin

Ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis ejus.

Hebrew

English

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.

In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:1–20, 48–54). In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:21–25). He explains how God’s people should respond (Lamentations 3:26–47). Finally, he calls out to the Lord in prayer (Lamentations 3:55–66).

Psalm 88:7
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
Psalm 88:15–16
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Job 19:21
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Jeremiah 15:17–18
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
Psalm 71:20
Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Jeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Lamentations 1:12–14
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.