Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3 Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
- KJV
- I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- WEB
- I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- ASV
- I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- DARBY
- I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- BLB
- I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath;
- ÅB
- Jeg er den mann som har sett elendighet under hans vredes ris.
- OTB
- Jeg er mannen som har opplevd lidelse under hans vredes ris.
- B1930
- Jeg er den mann som har sett elendighet under hans vredes ris.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 88:7
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
Read in contextJob 19:21
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Read in contextPsalms 88:15–16
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Read in contextPsalms 71:20
Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
Read in contextJeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
Read in contextLamentations 1:12–14
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
Read in contextJeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
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