Lamentations 3:1

Israel's Affliction

¹ I am [Jeremiah] the man who has seen affliction
Because of the rod of His wrath.
²
He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.

Rod of God

Jeremiah

Psalm 88:7

Your wrath has rested heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

Job 19:21

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

Psalm 88:15-16

I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

Psalm 71:20

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive and renew me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief;
And like One from whom men hide their faces
He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.

Jeremiah 15:17-18

I did not sit with the group of those who celebrate,
Nor did I rejoice;
I sat alone because Your [powerful] hand was upon me,
For You had filled me with indignation [at their sin].

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down [into the cistern] with ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Lamentations 1:12-14

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any pain like my pain
Which was severely dealt out to me,
Which the Lord has inflicted [on me] on the day of His fierce anger.