New Living Translation
Lamentations 3:1
1I am the one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the Lord’s anger.
Lamentations 3:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- New International Version (NIV)I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
Context of Lamentations 3:1
I am the one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the Lord’s anger. 2He has led me into darkness, shutting out all light. 3He has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
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אֲנִ֤י הַגֶּ֙בֶר֙ רָאָ֣ה עֳנִ֔י בְּשֵׁ֖בֶט עֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:1
- Lamentations 1:12“Does it mean nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see if there is any suffering like mine, which the Lord brought on me when he erupted in fierce anger.
- Job 19:21“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Psalms 71:20You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth.
- Psalms 88:7Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.
- Jeremiah 15:17I never joined the people in their merry feasts. I sat alone because your hand was on me. I was filled with indignation at their sins.
- Jeremiah 20:14Yet I curse the day I was born! May no one celebrate the day of my birth.
- Jeremiah 38:6So the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard. It belonged to Malkijah, a member of the royal family. There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1I am the man that hath seen affliction - Either the prophet speaks here of himself, or he is personating his miserable countrymen. This and other passages in this poem have been applied to Jesus Christ's passion; but, in my opinion, without any foundation.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1That hath seen affliction - i. e. hath experienced, suffered it.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies. Verses 1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-66La 3:1-66. Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration; hence the change from singular to plural (La 3:22, 40-47). The stanzas consist of three lines, each of which begins with the same Hebrew letter. Aleph. 1-3. seen affliction--his own in the dungeon of Malchiah (Jr 38:6); that of his countrymen also in the siege. Both were types of that of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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