Lamentations 3:2
He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
In Context
1[ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction || By the rod of His wrath.
3Surely against me He turns back, || He turns His hand all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18They thrust him from light to darkness, || And cast him out from the habitable earth.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore judgment has been far from us, || And righteousness does not reach us, || We wait for light, and behold, darkness, || For brightness—in thick darkness we go,
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to your God YHWH, || Before He causes darkness, || And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, || And you have waited for light, || And He has made it for death-shade, || And has appointed [it] for thick darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off my life in a pit, || And they cast a stone against me.
Jude 1:6messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but left their proper dwelling, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness until [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 →