Lamentations 3:1

God's Word

“I am the man who has experienced suffering under the rod of God’s fury.

Cross References

Job 19:21

“Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God’s hand has struck me down.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 71:20

You have made me endure many terrible troubles. You restore me to life again. You bring me back from the depths of the earth.

Psalm 88:7

Your rage lies heavily on me. You make all your waves pound on me. Selah

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by people. He was a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering. He was despised like one from whom people turn their faces, and we didn’t consider him to be worth anything.

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son. It was in the courtyard of the prison. They used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the cistern. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Jeremiah 43:6

They took men, women, children, and the king’s daughters. They took every person whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had left with Gedaliah, son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, including the prophet Jeremiah and Baruch, son of Neriah.

Jeremiah 8:21

I am crushed because my dear people have been crushed. I mourn; terror grips me.