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The Prophet—A Man of Despair

[a]“I am the man who has experienced suffering under the rod of Yahweh’s fury.
Yahweh has driven me away
    and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
He beat me again and again all day long.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:1 Chapter 3 is a poem in Hebrew alphabetical order.

[a]I am the man who has seen affliction(A)
    by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.(B)
He has driven me away and made me walk
    in darkness(C) rather than light;
indeed, he has turned his hand against me(D)
    again and again, all day long.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem; the verses of each stanza begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and the verses within each stanza begin with the same letter.