Lam 3:1 | CPDV | STEP | ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.

Lamentations 3:1

1 ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation. ^{▼▼3:1The man is Jerusalem personified, or the nation of Israel personified. In Lamentations, the text sometimes uses the first person singular as if Jerusalem were speaking.(Conte)}