I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Ver. 1. I am the man.] Here Jeremiah, in the name and place of all the Jewish people, setteth forth his sufferings very passionately and elegantly. Oυδεν γαρ του παθοντος ρητορικοτερον, saith Synesius; for nothing is more rhetorical than a man in misery. See on Lamentations 1:12 .
By the rod of his wrath,] i.e., Of God's wrath, whom yet he nameth not prae magnitudine affectus, a but referreth to him all his sufferings; and he alludeth here, say some, to that rod. Jer 1:11
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