Lamentations 3:1
Verse 1 of 66. The 3rd of 5 chapters in Lamentations, in The Major Prophets.
1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me 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.
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Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:1
This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (v. 1): I am the man, the remarkable man, that has seen affliction, and has felt it sensibly, by the rod of his wrath. Note, God is sometimes angry with his own people; yet it is to be complained of, not as a sword to cut off, by only as a rod to correct; it is to them the rod of his wrath, a chastening which, though grievous for the present…
Read Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:1–20: The Prophet's Personal Affliction. (b. c. 588.)
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