Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:1

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

Some understand this of the Prophet, some of the People, who were before set out under the Notion of a Woman, a Daughter, here of a man.

Affliction must here be taken Emphatically for eminent degrees of affliction, caused not meerly from the power and malice of the Enemy, but from the wrath of God, though brought upon them by the Chaldeans who were to the two Tribes, the Rod of Gods wrath, as the Assyrians are called with reference to the ten Tribes, Isa. 10.5.