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You Are Not Alone in Pain
Commentators like Spurgeon and Ellicott highlight that while the suffering described is intensely personal, it's a 'well-trodden path.' The speaker gives voice to a universal experience of grief, reminding believers that they are not the first or only ones to feel such deep affliction. This shared experience can be a source of comfort, knowing others have walked through similar valleys.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:1
18th Century
Theologian
That hath seen affliction - that is, has experienced, suffered it.
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:1
19th Century
Bishop
I am the man. —The lamentation is one of more intense personality. For that very reason it has been the true inheritance …
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:1
19th Century
Preacher
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 th…
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:1
16th Century
Theologian
The word עברה (obere) properly means assault, a passing over of limits; but what is characteristic of humanity is often in Scripture ascri…
John Gill
On Lamentations 3:1
17th Century
Pastor
I [am] the man [that] has seen affliction
Had much experience of it, especially ever since he had been a prophet; be…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:1–20
17th Century
Minister
The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…