Cross references
Lamentations 3:1
I
am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s wrath.
- a This chapter is an acrostic poem, each 3–verse stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
Lamentations 3:1 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 88:7 (5 votes) and Job 19:21 (3 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Ruth 1 to Lamentations 1.
Which verses does Lamentations 3:1 point to?
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- Psalm 88:75 votes
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
- Job 19:213 votes
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Psalm 88:15–163 votes
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
- Psalm 71:202 votes
Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
- Isaiah 53:32 votes
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
- Jeremiah 15:17–182 votes
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation. Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
- Jeremiah 20:14–182 votes
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy. …
- Jeremiah 38:62 votes
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- Lamentations 1:12–142 votes
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger? He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long. …
Which verses point to Lamentations 3:1?
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