Lamentations 3:2
He has driven me away, forcing me to walk in darkness instead of the light.
Free Bible Version
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 experienced suffering under the rod of God's anger.
3In fact he hits me again and again all day long.
Cross References
Job 18:18They are thrown out of light into darkness, driven from the world.
Isaiah 59:9So that's why we don't have justice, and we don't do what's right. We look for the light, but only find the dark; we look for bright light, but we walk in deep darkness.
Jeremiah 13:16Honor the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before you trip and fall in the twilight on the mountains. You long for light to come, but he sends only gloom and complete darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They tried to kill me by tossing me into a pit and throwing stones at me.
Jude 1:6Even those angels that were not content with their God-given positions but abandoned their rightful places—he has placed them in eternal chains of darkness until 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 →