Lamentations 3:1

Easy To Read Version

I am a man that has seen much trouble.\par The Lord beat us with a stick.\par And I saw it happen!\par

Cross References

Job 19:21

“Pity me, my friends, pity me!\par Why? Because God is against me.\par

Psalm 102:11

My life is almost finished,\par like the long shadows\par at the end of the day.\par I am like dry and dying grass.\par

Psalm 71:20

You let me see troubles and bad times.But you saved me from every one of themand kept me alive.No matter how deep I sank,you lifted me out of my troubles.

Psalm 88:7

God, you were angry at me,\par and you punished me.\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [501]})\i0 \par

Isaiah 53:3

People made fun of him, and his friends left him. He was a man that had much pain. He knew sickness very well. People did not even give him the honor of looking at him. We did not even notice him.

Jeremiah 38:6

So those officials took Jeremiah and put him into Malkijah’s cistern. {\cf2\super [324]} (Malkijah was the king’s son.) That cistern was in the temple yard where the king’s guard stayed. Those officials used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the cistern. The cistern didn’t have any water in it, but only mud. And Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Jeremiah 43:6

Now, Johanan and all the army officers took all the men, women, and children and led them to Egypt. Among those people were the king’s daughters. (Nebuzaradan had put Gedaliah in charge of those people. Nebuzaradan was the commander of the king of Babylon’s special guards.) Johanan also took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.

Jeremiah 8:21

My people are hurt,\par so I am hurt.\par I am too sad to speak.\par