John Trapp on Lamentations 3:1

CHAP. III.

Ver. 1. I Am the man] Here Jeremiah in the name and place of all the Jewiſh people, ſetteth forth his ſufferings very paſſionately, and elegantly: [non-Latin text not transcribed], ſaith Syneſius, for nothing is more Rhetorical then a man in miſery: See on chap. 1.12.

Oecol. By the rod of his wrath] i. e. Of Gods wrath, whom yet he nameth not prae magnitudine affectus, but referreth to him all his ſufferings, and alludeth here, ſay ſome, to that rod, Jer. 1.11.