Lamentations 3:1

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“I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.”

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BSBPD

“I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“I <FI>am<Fi> the man <FI>who<Fi> hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:1 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
  2. Psalms 71:20Though 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.
  3. Psalms 88:7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
  4. Psalms 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
  5. Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
  6. Isaiah 53:3He 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.
  7. Jeremiah 8:21For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
  8. Jeremiah 15:17I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
  9. Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
  10. Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
  11. Jeremiah 38:6So 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.
  12. Lamentations 1:12Is 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?

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