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Literal Standard Version

Lamentations 3:1

[ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction || By the rod of His wrath.

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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.
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[ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction || By the rod of His wrath.2He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light. 3Surely against me He turns back, || He turns His hand all the day. 4He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones. 5He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness. 6In dark places He has caused me to dwell, || As the dead of old. 7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy my chain. 8Also when I call and cry out, || He has shut out my prayer. 9He has hedged my ways with hewn work, || My paths He has made crooked. 10A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding 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 YHWH God says to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman says, "The serpent has caused me to forget, and I eat."
Genesis 3:15
and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel."
Ecclesiastes 4:10
For if they fall, the one raises up his companion, but woe to the one who falls and there is not a second to raise him up!
Isaiah 27:1
In that day YHWH lays a charge, || With His sword—the sharp, and the great, and the strong, || On leviathan—a fleeing serpent, || And on leviathan—a crooked serpent, || And He has slain the dragon that [is] in the sea.
Matthew 4:3
And the tempting [one], having come to Him, said, "If You are the Son of God—speak that these stones may become loaves."
Matthew 4:6
and says to Him, "If You are the Son of God—cast Yourself down, for it has been written that, His messengers He will charge concerning you, and on hands they will bear you up, that you may not dash your foot on a stone."
Matthew 4:9
and says to Him, "All these I will give to You, if falling down You may worship me."
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, therefore be wise as the serpents, and pure as the doves.
2 Corinthians 11:14
and no wonder—for even Satan transforms himself into a messenger of light;
1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, in like manner, dwelling with [them], according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel—to the wife—imparting honor, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers are not hindered.

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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