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Lam_3:1 I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Ver. 1. I am the man.] Here Jeremiah, in the name and place of all the Jewish people, setteth forth his sufferings very passionately and elegantly. Oõäåí ãáñ ôïõ ðáèïíôïò ñçôïñéêïôåñïí , saith Synesius; for nothing is more rhetorical than a man in misery. See on Lam_1:12.
By the rod of his wrath,] i.e., Of God’s wrath, whom yet he nameth not prae magnitudine affectus, {a} but referreth to him all his sufferings; and he alludeth here, say some, to that rod. {Jer_1:11}
{a} Oecolamp.