Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:1

"I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath." — Lamentations 3:1 (ASV)

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

It is a mistake that most souls make when in trouble, to suppose that no others ever felt as they do. John Bunyan describes Christian as being very much comforted by hearing someone quoting Scripture as he went through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, for then he perceived that there were others in the same situation as his own.

Do not think, poor troubled soul, that no one ever was so broken in pieces as you are; your path of sorrow is a well-trodden one.