Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me and brought me into darkness, and not into light;
Noyes 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 that hath seen affliction under the rod of His wrath;
3Yea, against me doth he again and again turn his hand all the day long.
Cross References
Job 18:18He shall be thrust from light into darkness, And driven out of the world.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is judgment far from us, And deliverance doth not overtake us. We look for light, and behold obscurity; For brightness, and we walk in darkness.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to Jehovah, your God, Before he bring darkness, And your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, And, while ye look for light, He turn it into deathlike shade, And make it gross darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They take away my life in the dungeon; they cast a stone upon me;
Jude 1:6and the angels which kept not their principality, but left their own dwelling-place, he hath kept in everlasting chains under darkness unto 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 →