Lamentations 3:1

Isaiah 53:3; Jeremiah 15:17; Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 20:14-18; Jeremiah 38:6; Job 19:21; Lamentations 1:12-14; Psalms 71:20; Psalms 88:15; Psalms 88:16; Psalms 88:7

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 3:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That hath seen affliction - i. e. hath experienced, suffered it.
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I [am] the man [that] hath seen (a) affliction by the rod of his wrath. (a) The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he endured...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3. The Third Lament. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in La...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

This chapter contains twenty-two verses: each verse having three lines: each line beginning with the same letter: and so, onward to the end of the al...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The word, עברה obere, properly means assault, passing over limits; but what is peculiar to man is often in Scripture ascribed to God. Here a...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. I am the man that hath seen affliction - Either the prophet speaks here of himsel...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I am the man that hath seen affliction— The prophet here speaks partly in his own character, and partly in that of his countrymen and fellow-suffer...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Lamentations 3:1-66 (AN ELEGY) Lamentations 3:1-66 .-Jeremiah proposes his...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

I am the man ] The author is a representative sufferer, an eye-witness, and typical of Christ.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's Hope in God's Mercy This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION Lamentations 3:1-21 WHETHER we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious point of view, the th...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. The same subject of lamentation runs through the whole of this Chapter.
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me i...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction ,.... Had a much experience of it, especially ever since he had been a prophet; being reproached and ill...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I am the man that hath seen affliction I myself have suffered affliction in this time of public calamity. He speaks, probably, with a particular re...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 3 The faithful bewail their misery and contempt, Lamentations 3:1-21 . They nourish their hope by consideration of the just...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

In His Initial Despair The Prophet Bewails His Own Sad Condition ( Lamentations 3:1-18 ). In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the onl...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (א) Lamentations 3:1 . The author writes as if his own person was the object on which all the troubles had been inflicted. I...
Scofield Reference Notes

The literary form of Lamentations is necessarily obscured in the translation. It is an acrostic dirge, the line arranged in couplets or triplet, e...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation, and I hope i...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The first part of this chapter is one of the saddest in the whole Book of God; yet I expect it has ministered as much consolation as some of the brig...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition....
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 3:1-25 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath, so Jeremiah writes in setting forth his own experiences as characteristic of the mise...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I am the man — It seems, this is spoken in the name of the people, who were before set out under the notion of a woman.

¹ I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 3:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lamentations 3:1