Lamentations 3:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

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  • Ps 88:7 : 7 Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, & thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. Selah.
  • Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life. 16 Thine indignations goe ouer me, and thy feare hath cut me off.
  • Job 19:21 : 21 Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 Which hast shewed me great troubles and aduersities, but thou wilt returne, and reuiue me, and wilt come againe, and take mee vp from the depth of the earth.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: he was despised and we esteemed him not.
  • Jer 15:17-18 : 17 I sate not in the assembly of the mockers, neither did I reioyce, but sate alone because of thy plague: for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is mine heauines continuall? And my plague desperate and cannot be healed? why art thou vnto me as a lyar, and as waters that faile?
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man, that shewed my father, saying, A man child is borne vnto thee, and comforted him. 16 And let that man be as the cities, which the Lord hath ouerturned and repented not: and let him heare the cry in the morning, and the showting at noone tide, 17 Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception. 18 How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde be consumed with shame?
  • Jer 38:6 : 6 Then tooke they Ieremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the sonne of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let downe Ieremiah with coards: and in the dungeon there was no water but myre: so Ieremiah stacke fast in the myre.
  • Lam 1:12-14 : 12 Haue ye no regarde, all yee that passe by this way? behold, and see, if there be any sorowe like vnto my sorowe, which is done vnto mee, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath. 13 From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bounde vpon his hand: they are wrapped, and come vp vpon my necke: hee hath made my strength to fall: the Lord hath deliuered me into their hands, neither am I able to rise vp.

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  • Lam 3:2-7
    6 verses
    82%

    2He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.

    3Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.

    4My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.

    5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.

    6He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.

    7He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.

  • 14For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

  • Lam 1:12-14
    3 verses
    76%

    12Haue ye no regarde, all yee that passe by this way? behold, and see, if there be any sorowe like vnto my sorowe, which is done vnto mee, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath.

    13From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bounde vpon his hand: they are wrapped, and come vp vpon my necke: hee hath made my strength to fall: the Lord hath deliuered me into their hands, neither am I able to rise vp.

  • 19Wo is me for my destruction, and my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my sorow, and I will beare it.

  • 10Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.

  • 19Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.

  • 11He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 2Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,

  • 10I haue seene the trauaile that God hath giuen to ye sonnes of men to humble them thereby.

  • 39Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.

  • 3Therefore are my loynes filled with sorow: sorowes haue taken me as the sorowes of a woman that trauayleth: I was bowed downe when I heard it, and I was amased when I sawe it.

  • 6I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day.

  • 9I will beare the wrath of the Lord because I haue sinned against him, vntill he pleade my cause, and execute iudgement for me: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.

  • 3The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.

  • 15What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.

  • 20I haue sinned, what shal I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe?

  • 17Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

  • Lam 1:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

    21They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

  • 15If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.

  • 19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.

  • Job 17:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.

    7Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.

  • 6But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.

  • 3So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.

  • 35They haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still.

  • 20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

  • 9He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.

  • 7Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, & thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. Selah.

  • 18The Lorde hath chastened me sore, but he hath not deliuered me to death.

  • 15I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.

  • 7I wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,

  • 8Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.

  • 1A song of degrees. They haue often times afflicted me from my youth (may Israel nowe say)

  • 71It is good for me that I haue beene afflicted, that I may learne thy statutes.

  • 4Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 15He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood.

  • 19He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,

  • 3When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

  • 31Surely it appertaineth vnto God to say, I haue pardoned, I will not destroy.

  • 67Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but nowe I keepe thy woorde.

  • 21Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.

  • 1A Psalme of Dauid for remembrance. O Lorde, rebuke mee not in thine anger, neither chastise me in thy wrath.