Lamentations 3:1

New American Bible - revised edition

I am one who has known affliction under the rod of God’s anger,

Cross References

Psalm 88:7

You plunge me into the bottom of the pit, into the darkness of the abyss.

Job 19:21

Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me!

Jeremiah 38:6

And so they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah, in the court of the guard, letting him down by rope. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Isaiah 53:3

He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, knowing pain, Like one from whom you turn your face, spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

Psalm 71:20

Whatever bitter afflictions you sent me, you would turn and revive me. From the watery depths of the earth once more raise me up.

Jeremiah 43:6

men, women, and children, the princesses and everyone whom Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard, had consigned to Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah, the prophet, and Baruch, son of Neriah.

Psalm 102:11

Because of your furious wrath, you lifted me up just to cast me down.

Jeremiah 8:21

I am broken by the injury of the daughter of my people. I am in mourning; horror has seized me.