Lamentations 3:1 Cross References - MKJV

¹ I the man have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

²¹ Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.

²⁰ who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up.

⁷ Your wrath lies hard on me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away. ¹⁶ Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off.

³ He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.

¹⁷ I did not sit in the circle of mockers, nor rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation. ¹⁸ Why has my pain been without end, and why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like a deceitful brook, waters that cannot be trusted.

¹⁴ Cursed is the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad. ¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; ¹⁷ because he did not kill me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. ¹⁸ Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?

⁶ And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which is done to me, with which Jehovah has afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger. ¹³ From above He has sent fire into my bones and it has laid them low. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me amazed and faint all the day. ¹⁴ The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand; they intertwine; they rise on my neck. He has made my strength to falter; Jehovah has delivered me into their hands. I am not able to rise up.