Lamentations 3:2
Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
In Context
1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
3Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make [it] gross darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
Jude 1:6And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to [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 →