Lamentations 3:1 Cross References - Leeser

¹ I am the man who hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

²¹ Spare me, spare me, O ye, my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

²⁰ Thou, who hast shown me great distresses and misfortunes, wilt again revive me; and from the depths of the earth wilt thou bring me up again.

^{7 (88:8)} Upon me lieth heavily thy fury, and with all thy billows hast thou afflicted me. Selah.

^{15 (88:16)} I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted. ^{16 (88:17)} Over me have the fires of thy wrath passed; thy terrors have destroyed me;

³ He was despised and shunned by men; a man of pains, and acquainted with disease; and as one who hid his face from us was he despised, and we esteemed him not.

¹⁷ I sat not in the assembly of the mirthful, and was rejoiced; because of thy inspiration I sat solitary; for thou hadst filled me with indignation. ¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? it refuseth to be healed; it is truly become unto me as a deceptive spring, as waters that are not reliable.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day whereon I was born: the day on which my mother bore me shall not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee. How very glad did he make him! ¹⁶ And may that same man become like the cities which the Lord overthrew, and bethought himself not; and may he hear a cry of anguish in the morning, and a tumultuous noise at noontide; ¹⁷ Because I was not slain as I escaped from the womb; or that my mother might have become unto me my grave, and her womb have been affected with a perpetual pregnancy. ¹⁸ Wherefore was this that I came forth out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should pass away in shame?

⁶ Then did they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malkiyahu the son of the king, that was in the court of the prison: and they let Jeremiah down with cords; but in the pit there was no water, but mire; so that Jeremiah sunk into the mire.

¹² “I adjure you, all that pass this way, behold, and see if there be any pain like unto my pain, which hath been inflicted on me, wherewith the Lord hath aggrieved me on the day of his fierce anger. ¹³ From on high hath he sent a fire into my bones, and breaketh them one by one: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath caused me to return backward; he hath made me desolate, sick all the day. ¹⁴ Bound fast is the yoke of my transgressions by his hand,—they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to stumble: the Lord hath given me up into the hands of those against whom I am not able to rise up.