Lamentations 3:1 meaning and explanation
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
Lamentations 3:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is an unnamed individual, likely the city's representative or the prophet himself, voicing the grief of Jerusalem after its destruction by Babylon in 586 BC. He speaks from inside the catastrophe, describing affliction as coming from God's own rod, the image of a shepherd's or taskmaster's staff used to discipline.
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