Lamentations 3:1
New International Version
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD’s wrath.

New Living Translation
I am the one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the LORD’s anger.

English Standard Version
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;

Berean Standard Bible
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

King James Bible
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

New King James Version
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

New American Standard Bible
I am the man who has seen misery Because of the rod of His wrath.

NASB 1995
I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

NASB 1977
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 affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

Amplified Bible
I am [Jeremiah] the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

Christian Standard Bible
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

American Standard Version
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Aleph God The Mighty One saw my oppression with the rod of his wrath

Brenton Septuagint Translation
ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me.

Contemporary English Version
I have suffered much because God was angry.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

English Revised Version
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I am the man who has experienced suffering under the rod of God's fury.

Good News Translation
I am one who knows what it is to be punished by God.

International Standard Version
I am a man familiar with affliction— under the rod of God's anger.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I am the man that hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

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

Majority Standard Bible
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

New American Bible
I am one who has known affliction under the rod of God’s anger,

NET Bible
I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.

New Revised Standard Version
I am one who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath;

New Heart English Bible
I am the 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.

World English Bible
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Young's Literal Translation
I am the man who hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

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Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.…

Cross References
Psalm 88:7
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

Psalm 88:15
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

Jeremiah 43:6
the men, the women, the children, the king's daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.


Treasury of Scripture

I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

the man

Lamentations 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…

Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

Psalm 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.

his wrath.

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22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
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(1) I am the man.--The lamentation is one of more intense personality. For that very reason it has been the true inheritance of all mourners, however widely different in time, country, circumstance, whose sorrows have approximated to that intensity.

The rod of his wrath.--The "wrath" is obviously that of Jehovah (comp. Proverbs 22:8; Isaiah 10:5), but there is something significant in the fact that He is not named.

Verses 1-21. - MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE NATION; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION PERSONIFIED (see Introduction). Verse 1. - Seen. "To see" in Hebrew often means "to experience;" e.g. Jeremiah 5:12; Psalm 16:10; Ecclesiastes 8:16. By the rod of his wrath. The idea is, not that Babylon has humbled Israel as Jehovah's instrument, but that God himself has brought these troubles upon his people. "He had led me, hath hedged me about," etc.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I
אֲנִ֤י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

am the man
הַגֶּ֙בֶר֙ (hag·ge·ḇer)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

who has seen
רָאָ֣ה (rā·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

affliction
עֳנִ֔י (‘o·nî)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6040: Affliction, poverty

under the rod
בְּשֵׁ֖בֶט (bə·šê·ḇeṭ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

of [God’s] wrath.
עֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃ (‘eḇ·rā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5678: Overflow, arrogance, fury


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