Lamentations 3:1

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Summary

Lamentations 3:1

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

The man

General references

Job 30:28

Bible References

The man

ל LamedIs this nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for God’s hand has struck me.

You caused me to experience
many troubles and misfortunes,
but You will revive me again.
You will bring me up again,
even from the depths of the earth.

Your wrath weighs heavily on me;
You have overwhelmed me with all Your waves.Selah

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

I never sat with the band of revelers,
and I did not celebrate with them.
Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone,
for You filled me with indignation.

May the day I was born
be cursed.
May the day my mother bore me
never be blessed.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

General references

I walk about blackened, but not by the sun.
I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.