Lamentations 3:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ I am a man who have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath

²¹ Pity me, pity me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

²⁰ what afflictions many and sore hast thou shewn me! But thou hast returned and quickened me; and brought me up again from the depths of the earth.

⁷ On me thy wrath was pressed hard, and all thy billows thou didst bring upon me.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and in troubles from my youth: though raised high I have been humbled and distressed. ¹⁶ Thy resentments have come upon me; and thy terrors have quite confounded me:

³ but his appearance is mean and defective beyond the sons of men. Being a man in affliction and acquainted with grief, because his countenance was dejected, he was despised and disesteemed.

¹⁷ I did not sit in the council of those scorners; but was struck with awe because of Thy hand. I sat alone because I was full of bitterness. ¹⁸ Why do they who grieve me prevail over me? My wound is deep, how can I be healed? It is indeed become to me like deceitful water which cannot be trusted.

¹⁴ Let the day be cursed in which I was born; the day in which my mother bore me; Let it not be mentioned with expressions of joy. ¹⁵ Let the man be cursed who brought tidings to my father saying, A male child is borne to thee making him glad. ¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath and relented not, Let him hear a scream in the morning and the cry of Woe at noon-day, ¹⁷ because he did not kill me in the womb, and my mother was not made my grave, and her womb always with child." ¹⁸ To what purpose this? I came forth from the womb to see labours and sorrows, and my days have been spent in shame.

⁶ So they threw him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son which was in the court of the prison. And when they had lowered him down into the dungeon, there was no water in the dungeon, but there was mire; and he was in the mire.

¹² [s] Ho! all ye who travel the way turn and see! is there any sorrow like this of mine, which he hath denounced against me. The Lord hath humbled me in the day of his fierce indignation. ¹³ From his loftiness he hath sent a fire; he brought it in among my bones. He hath spread a net for my feet and turned me backwards. He hath made me desolate and full of sorrow, all the live long day. ¹⁴ He hath kept a watch on my transgressions. They are wreathed round my hands. They have reached up to my neck. My strength is enfeebled. For into my hands the Lord hath sent pains. I cannot stand.