Lamentations 3:2
Me hath he driven out, and led into darkness, but not into light.
Leeser Tanakh
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 hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
3Surely against me doth he turn again and again his hand all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, nor will happiness overtake us: we ever hope for light, but behold there is darkness; for brightness, but in obscurity must we walk.
Jeremiah 13:16Give unto the Lord your God glory, before he cause darkness, and before your feet strike upon the mountains of twilight, and [where], while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and change it into gross darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They have shut up in the dungeon my life, 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 →