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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I am the man
geber (Hebrew #1397)
properly, a valiant man or warrior; generally, a person simply
KJV usage: every one, man, X mighty.
Pronounce: gheh'-ber
Origin: from 1396
that hath seen
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
affliction
`oniy (Hebrew #6040)
from 6031; depression, i.e. misery: --afflicted(-ion), trouble.
Pronounce: on-ee'
by the rod
shebet (Hebrew #7626)
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
KJV usage: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: shay'-bet
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off
of his wrath
`ebrah (Hebrew #5678)
an outburst of passion
KJV usage: anger, rage, wrath.
Pronounce: eb-raw'
Origin: feminine of 5676
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Ministry on This Verse

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1-21:  The prophet bewails his own calamities.
22-36:  By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope.
37-54:  He acknowledges God's justice.
55-63:  He prays for deliverance,
64-66:  and vengeance on his enemies.
the man.
Lam. 1:12‑14• 12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, whom Jehovah hath afflicted in the day of his fierce anger.
 13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; he hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back; he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
 14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into hands out of which I am not able to rise up. (Lam. 1:12‑14)
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Job 19:21• 21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me. (Job 19:21)
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Psa. 71:20• 20Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth; (Psa. 71:20)
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Psa. 88:7,15‑16• 7Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
 15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.
 16Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought: (Psa. 88:7,15‑16)
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Isa. 53:3• 3He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces;--despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa. 53:3)
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Jer. 15:17‑18• 17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
 18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a treacherous spring, as waters that fail? (Jer. 15:17‑18)
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Jer. 20:14‑18• 14Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
 15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad!
 16And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,
 17because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!
 18Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)
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Jer. 38:6• 6Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. (Jer. 38:6)
his wrath.That is, the wrath of God.
• This strain differs, as in the triple alliteration of its structure, so also in its more distinctly personal plaintiveness. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 3:1-21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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cI am the mand that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

JND Translation Notes

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c
In this chapter, each verse in every succeeding set of three begins with the same Hebrew letter; and the whole in alphabetical order.
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Geber; and so in vers. 27,35,39. see Job 3.3.