Lamentations 3:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Lamentations 3:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalms 88:15-16
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. …
Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Isaiah 53:3
He 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.
Lamentations 1:12-14
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Despair Despondency Discouragement

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-20)

The title of the Ps. 102:1-28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter— The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord; for it is very feelingly and fluently that the complaint is here poured out. Let us observe the particulars of it. The prophet complains, 1. That God is angry. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (Lam. 3:1):…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

La 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 cou…