Lamentations 3:2
By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
Bible in Basic English
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 trouble by the rod of his wrath.
3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Isaiah 59:9For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
Lamentations 3:53They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
Jude 1:6And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
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 →