I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
In addition to this, many of the greatest scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries enthusiastically accept Jeremiah as "the man." Jamieson wrote that, "In chapter 3, Jeremiah proposes his own experiences under sufferings as examples of how the Jews should behave under theirs."[12]  "The penman is Jeremiah the prophet, who is here Jeremiah the poet."[13]  "Not merely the ancient traditions of Josephus, the Targum, the Talmud and the LXX, but also the internal evidence, identify Jeremiah as the author."[14]  In 1915, C. von Orelli gave this emphatic summary of why Jeremiah is most certainly the author of Lamentations: