I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
"A serious difficulty arises if we claim that Jeremiah was not the author of Lamentations in his denunciations of the prophets in Jerusalem  (Lamentations 2:14; 4:13).  How could the great prophet of the Destruction be ignored if he were not the author of these sentiments?  If Jeremiah was indeed the author, we can easily understand it.  In his `Jeremiah' he had spoken in exactly the same way (the very same words) about those evil prophets.  To this it must be added that this third chapter forces us to regard Jeremiah as the author, because of his personal sufferings that are here described."[15]  We have over- emphasized this point here in order to demonstrate that consensus among many current scholars in regard to a given interpretation frequently means that only one of them is thinking, or perhaps that all of them are merely repeating the allegations of other critics.  There is no excuse whatever for the near-unanimous denial of many writers that "someone else ... we don't know who" wrote Lamentations.