Lamentations 3:1

Israel's Affliction

¹ I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s wrath.
² He has driven me away and forced me to walk
in darkness instead of light.

Rod of God

Jeremiah

Psalm 88:7

Your wrath weighs heavily on me;
You have overwhelmed me with all Your waves.Selah

Job 19:21

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for God’s hand has struck me.

Psalm 88:15-16

From my youth,
I have been afflicted and near death.
I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.

Psalm 71:20

You caused me to experience
many troubles and misfortunes,
but You will revive me again.
You will bring me up again,
even from the depths of the earth.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

Jeremiah 15:17-18

I never sat with the band of revelers,
and I did not celebrate with them.
Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone,
for You filled me with indignation.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

May the day I was born
be cursed.
May the day my mother bore me
never be blessed.

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Lamentations 1:12-14

ל LamedIs this nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?