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Geneva Bible

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Scofield Reference Index - Lamentations;   Thompson Chain Reference - Correction;   Rod;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Desertion;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Rod;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ekah (Lamentations) Rabbati;   Ishmael B. Jose B. Halafta;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am the man who has seen affliction
Hebrew Names Version
I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
King James Version
I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
English Standard Version
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
New American Standard Bible
I am the man who has seen misery Because of the rod of His wrath.
New Century Version
I am a man who has seen the suffering that comes from the rod of the Lord 's anger.
Amplified Bible
I am [Jeremiah] the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.
World English Bible
I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.
Legacy Standard Bible
I am the man who has seen afflictionBecause of the rod of His wrath.
Berean Standard Bible
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God's wrath.
Contemporary English Version
The Prophet Speaks: I have suffered much because God was angry.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his fury,
Darby Translation
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am a man who has seen much trouble. God beat us with a stick, and I saw it happen.
George Lamsa Translation
O MIGHTY God, see my affliction; I am chastised by the rod of his wrath.
Good News Translation
I am one who knows what it is to be punished by God.
Lexham English Bible
I am a man who has seen misery, under the rod of his wrath.
Literal Translation
I, the man, have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am the ma, that (thorow the rodd of his wrath) haue experiece of misery.
American Standard Version
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Bible in Basic English
I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
King James Version (1611)
I Am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me.
English Revised Version
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aleph. I am a man seynge my pouert in the yerde of his indignacioun.
Update Bible Version
I am the [noble] man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Webster's Bible Translation
I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
New English Translation

א (Alef)

I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.
New King James Version
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
New Living Translation
I am the one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the Lord 's anger.
New Life Bible
I am the man who has been suffering because of the power of God's anger.
New Revised Standard
I am one who has seen affliction under the rod of God's wrath;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, am the man, that hath seen affliction, by the rod of his indignation;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
Revised Standard Version
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
Young's Literal Translation
I [am] the man [who] hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
THE MESSAGE
I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God 's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again.

Contextual Overview

1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation. 2 He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light. 3 Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour. 6 He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer. 7 He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy. 8 Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths. 10 He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the man: Lamentations 1:12-14, Job 19:21, Psalms 71:20, Psalms 88:7, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:16, Isaiah 53:3, Jeremiah 15:17, Jeremiah 15:18, Jeremiah 20:14-18, Jeremiah 38:6

his wrath: That is, the wrath of God.

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:20 - dealt Job 30:28 - General Jeremiah 20:18 - came Jeremiah 43:6 - Jeremiah Jeremiah 45:3 - added

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
And the Lorde God saide to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.
Genesis 3:15
I wil also put enimitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seede & her seede. He shall breake thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
Ecclesiastes 4:10
For if they fal, the one wil lift vp his felow: but wo vnto him that is alone: for he falleth, and there is not a second to lift him vp.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lorde with his sore and great and mightie sword shall visite Liuiathan, that pearcing serpent, euen Liuiathan, that crooked serpent, and he shal slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Matthew 4:3
Then came to him the tempter, and said, If thou be the Sonne of God, commande that these stones be made bread.
Matthew 4:6
And said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe: for it is written, that he wil giue his Angels charge ouer thee, and with their hands they shall lift thee vp, lest at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.
Matthew 4:9
And sayd to him, All these will I giue thee, if thou wilt fall downe, and worship me.
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you as sheepe in the middes of the wolues: be yee therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doues.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no marueile: for Satan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light.
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them as men of knowledge, giuing honour vnto the woman, as vnto the weaker vessell, euen as they which are heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not interrupted.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction,.... Had a much experience of it, especially ever since he had been a prophet; being reproached and ill used by his own people, and suffering with them in their calamities; particularly, as Jarchi observes, his affliction was greater than the other prophets, who indeed prophesied of the destruction of the city and temple, but did not see it; whereas he lived to see it: he was not indeed the only man that endured affliction, but he was remarkable for his afflictions; he had a large share of them, and was herein a type of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefs:

by the rod of his wrath; that is, by the rod of the wrath of God, for he is understood; it is a relative without an antecedent, as in Song of Solomon 1:1; unless the words are to be considered in connection Lamentations 2:22. The Targum is,

"by the rod of him that chastiseth in his anger;''

so Jarchi; but God's chastisements of his own people are in love, though thought sometimes by them to be in wrath and hot displeasure; so the prophet imagined, but it was not so; perhaps some regard may be had to the instrument of Jerusalem's destruction, the king of Babylon, called the rod of the Lord's anger, Isaiah 10:5; all this was true of Christ, as the surety of his people, and as sustaining their persons, and standing in their room.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That hath seen affliction - i. e. hath experienced, suffered it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

The prophet, by enumerating his own severe trials, 1-20,

and showing his trust in God, 21,

encourages his people to the like resignation and trust in the

Divine and never-failing mercy, 22-27.

He vindicates the goodness of God in all his dispensations, and

the unreasonableness of murmuring under them, 28-39.

He recommends self-examination and repentance; and then, from

their experience of former deliverances from God, encourages

them to look for pardon for their sins, and retribution to

their enemies, 40-66.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Lamentations 3:1. I 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.


 
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