Lamentations 3:1 BSB

Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲנִ֤י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
הַגֶּ֙בֶר֙	ha.Ge.ver	[am] the man	H1397 →
רָאָ֣ה	ra.'Ah	[who] he has seen	H7200 →
עֳנִ֔י	'o.Ni	affliction	H6040 →
בְּשֵׁ֖בֶט	be.She.vet	by [the] rod of	H7626 →
עֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃	ev.ra.To	fury his	H5678 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 88:7
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
leads to
- Job 6:4
  For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 42:7
  Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
Through
Jeremiah 38:6
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…
leads to
- Jeremiah 37:21
  So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in…
- Psalms 69:2
  I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
- Jeremiah 37:16
  So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
- Psalms 69:14–15
  Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
- Jeremiah 38:22
  All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and…
Through
Job 19:21
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
leads to
- Job 1:11
  But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Psalms 88:7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?Psalms 88:15–16From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.Jeremiah 43:6the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.Jeremiah 38:6So 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.Jeremiah 20:14–18Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.Psalms 71:20Though 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.Jeremiah 15:17–18I 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.Lamentations 1:12–14Is 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?Isaiah 53:3He 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.

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