Lamentations 3:2
Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
In Context
1Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
3Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.
Jeremiah 13:16Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.
Lamentations 3:53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
Jude 1:6And the angels who kept not their principality, but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto 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 →