Lamentations 3:2
ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
In Context
1ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.
3ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
Cross References
Job 18:18He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
Isaiah 59:9Because of this, judgment is far from us, and justice will not take hold of us. We waited for light, and behold, darkness; we waited for brightness, and we walked in darkness.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before darkness falls, and before your feet stumble on the darkened mountains. You will expect light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death and into utter darkness.
Lamentations 3:53SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.
Jude 1:6And truly, the Angels, who did not keep to their first place, but instead abandoned their own domiciles, he has reserved with perpetual chains under darkness, unto the great day of judgment.
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 →