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Afflicted, I have seen and know what it’s like
    to feel the rod of God’s anger:
An absence of light and only darkness.
    Darkness—that’s where God has driven me.
Against me and me alone, over and over,
    God raises His hand incessantly.

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[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.