Lamentations 3:1

Israel's Affliction

¹ I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ² Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

Rod of God

Jeremiah

Psalm 88:7

Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Job 19:21

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.

Psalm 88:15-16

I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.

Psalm 71:20

Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth;

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces; despised, and we esteemed him not.

Jeremiah 15:17-18

I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!

Jeremiah 38:6

Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

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, whom Jehovah hath afflicted in the day of his fierce anger.