Lamentations 3:2
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
In Context
1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
3Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
Jude 1:6And the heavenly agents who did not keep their own principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept reserved in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →