Lamentations 3:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Archaic language reduces readability
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 88:7 : 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {H5542}
Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
Job 19:21 : 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Ps 71:20 : 20 Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
Jer 15:17-18 : 17 I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jer 38:6 : 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that 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.
Lam 1:12-14 : 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger. 13 From 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. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 3:2-7
6 verses
82%
2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
Ps 73:14
77%
14For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.
Lam 1:12-14
3 verses
76%
12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] 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 knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
Jer 10:19
75%
19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
Ps 39:10
74%
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Lam 3:19
74%
19Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lam 3:11
74%
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Job 23:2
74%
2Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Eccl 3:10
74%
10I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Lam 3:39
74%
39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Isa 21:3
74%
3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Ps 38:6
74%
6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Mic 7:9
74%
9I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.
Ps 129:3
73%
3The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.
Isa 38:15
73%
15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7:20
73%
20If I have sinned, what I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Job 5:17
73%
17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Lam 1:20-21
2 verses
73%
20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
Job 10:15
73%
15If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.
Job 30:19
73%
19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 17:6-7
2 verses
73%
6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Ps 22:6
73%
6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Job 7:3
72%
3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Prov 23:35
72%
35They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Job 3:20
72%
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
Lam 3:9
72%
9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
Ps 88:7
72%
7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {H5542}
Ps 118:18
72%
18Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not given me over unto death.
Job 16:15
72%
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
Ps 31:7
72%
7I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Job 19:8
72%
8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
Ps 129:1
72%
1A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,
Ps 119:71
72%
71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.
Job 21:4
72%
4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
Lam 3:15
72%
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Job 33:19
72%
19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;
Job 29:3
72%
3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
Job 34:31
72%
31For hath any said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]:
Ps 119:67
72%
67Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.
Job 19:21
72%
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Ps 38:1
72%
1A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.