Lamentations 3:2
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
Majority Standard Bible
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 seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
Cross References
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that 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 →