Lamentations 3:2
He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not into light.
Brenton Septuagint
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 sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me.
3Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18Let one drive him from light into darkness.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.
Lamentations 3:53and laid a stone upon me.
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 →