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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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New Living Translation

Lamentations 3:1

I am the one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the Lord 's anger.

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 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 one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the Lord 's anger. 2 He has led me into darkness, shutting out all light. 3 He has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. 4 He has made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones. 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress. 6 He has buried me in a dark place, like those long dead. 7 He has walled me in, and I cannot escape. He has bound me in heavy chains. 8 And though I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers. 9 He has blocked my way with a high stone wall; he has made my road crooked. 10 He has hidden like a bear or a lion, waiting to attack me.

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
Then the Lord God asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied. "That's why I ate it."
Genesis 3:15
And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
Ecclesiastes 4:10
If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
Matthew 4:3
During that time the devil came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread."
Matthew 4:6
and said, "If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone.'"
Matthew 4:9
"I will give it all to you," he said, "if you will kneel down and worship me."
Matthew 10:16
"Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.
2 Corinthians 11:14
But I am not surprised! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
1 Peter 3:7
In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be 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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