Lamentations 3:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

I am a man who has seen much trouble. God beat us with a stick, and I saw it happen.

Cross References

Psalm 88:7

Your anger presses down on me like a heavy weight. It’s like one wave after another pounding against me. Selah

Job 19:21

“Pity me, my friends, pity me, because God is against me.

Jeremiah 38:6

So the officials took Jeremiah and put him into Malkijah’s cistern. Malkijah was the king’s son. The cistern was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. They used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the cistern. The cistern didn’t have any water in it, only mud. And Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Isaiah 53:3

People made fun of him, and even his friends left him. He was a man who suffered a lot of pain and sickness. We treated him like someone of no importance, like someone people will not even look at but turn away from in disgust.

Psalm 71:20

You have let me see troubles and hard times, but you will give me new life; you will lift me up from this pit of death!

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.

Psalm 102:11

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

Jeremiah 8:21

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