Lamentations 3:1
Good News Translation
I am one who knows what it is to be punished by God.

New Revised Standard Version
I am one who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath;

Contemporary English Version
I have suffered much because God was angry.

New American Bible
I am one who has known affliction under the rod of God’s anger,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

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Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

the man

Lamentations 1:12-14 Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger. . . .

Job 19:21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

Psalm 71:20 How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

Psalm 88:7,15,16 Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me. . . .

Isaiah 53:3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

Jeremiah 15:17,18 I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats. . . .

Jeremiah 20:14-18 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. . . .

Jeremiah 38:6 Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And Jeremiah sunk into the mire.

his wrath.

Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
1Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.2Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.…
Cross References
Psalm 88:7
Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

Psalm 88:15
I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

Jeremiah 43:6
Men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every soul, which Nabuzardan the general had left with Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.

Lamentations 2:22
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