Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 3:1
1I am the strong man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
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 strong man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. 2He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not light. 3Surely, He 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“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is any suffering like my suffering that was brought on me, that Adonai has inflicted in the day of His fierce anger?
- Job 19:21“Have pity on me my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Psalms 71:20You made me see many troubles and evils —You will revive me again— from the depths of the earth You will bring me up again.
- Psalms 88:7You have laid me in the lowest places, in dark places, in the depths.
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, One from whom people hide their faces. He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
- Jeremiah 15:17I never sat in the company of revelers nor made merry. Because of Your hand I sat alone, for You filled me with indignation.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! The day that my mother bore me— may it never be blessed!
- Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern-pit of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard, lowering Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
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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