Lamentations 3:1
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Read in contextJob 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Read in contextPsalms 88:15–16
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Read in contextPsalms 71:20
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Read in contextJeremiah 38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Read in contextLamentations 1:12–14
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Read in contextJeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
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