Lamentations 3:1

I am the man that hath seen affliction,.... Had a much experience of it, especially ever since he had been a prophet; being reproached and ill used by his own people, and suffering with them in their…

That hath seen affliction - i. e. hath experienced, suffered it.

I am the man that hath seen affliction - Either the prophet speaks here of himself, or he is personating his miserable countrymen. This and other passages in this poem have been applied to Jesus…

The title of the 102nd Psalm might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter - The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord; for it is very feelingly…

by the rod of his wrath For the figure cp. Job 9:34; Job 21:9; Psa 89:32; Isa 10:5. We should notice the absence of God's name Lam 3:1-21, except in Lam 3:3, in contrast with its frequency afterwards,…