Lamentations 3:1

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

Note This chapter is an acrostic poem, each 3–verse stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

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

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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