Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 He turneth His hand again and again all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but behold darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before it grow dark, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight, and, while ye look for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones 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 →