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Lamentations 3:1

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I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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  1. Psalms 88:7Rank 1 from verse 1
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    7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

  2. Job 19:21Rank 2 from verse 1
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    21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

  3. Psalms 88:15–16Rank 3 from verse 1
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    15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

    16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

  4. Isaiah 53:3Rank 4 from verse 1
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    3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

  5. Jeremiah 15:17–18Rank 5 from verse 1
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    17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

    18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

  6. Jeremiah 20:14–18Rank 6 from verse 1
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    14¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare 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 the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

    17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

    18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  7. Jeremiah 38:6Rank 7 from verse 1
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    6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

  8. Lamentations 1:12–14Rank 8 from verse 1
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    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, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

    13From above 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, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

  9. Psalms 71:20Rank 9 from verse 1
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    20Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

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Lamentations 3:1

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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COMBINED MEANING

wrath

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Fierce anger, indignation, displeasure, rage, or the punitive judgment and destructive action that proceed from it.

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2:22Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

3:1I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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3:2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

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