Lamentations 3:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 88:7 : 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
  • Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. 16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
  • Job 19:21 : 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
  • Jer 15:17-18 : 17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath. 18 Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me. 15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad. 16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day; 17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever. 18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
  • Jer 38:6 : 6 So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.
  • Lam 1:12-14 : 12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath. 13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day. 14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:2-7
    6 verses
    82%

    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

    3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

    5He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

    7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

  • 14For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

  • Lam 1:12-14
    3 verses
    76%

    12Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

    13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • 19Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • 10No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • 19Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

  • 11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 2Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

  • 10I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.

  • 39What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

  • 3For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

  • 6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • 9I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

  • 3The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

  • 15What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

  • 20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

  • 17Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

  • Lam 1:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

    21Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

  • 15That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

  • 19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Job 17:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

    7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • 6But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

  • 3So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

  • 35They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

  • 20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • 9He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

  • 7The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

  • 18The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

  • 15I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

  • 7I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

  • 8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • 1<A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

  • 71It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.

  • 4As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • 15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

  • 19Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

  • 3When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

  • 31...

  • 67Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.

  • 21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

  • 1<A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory.> O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.