I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Of all the men who lived through that terrible period, no one had a better right to say this than Jeremiah.  "In more ways than one this brings us to the very heart of the book.  It even gives us a foreglimpse of the sufferings of Christ with which it has affinities  (Isaiah 3;  Psalms 22)."[17]