Lamentations 3:2
He hath driven me away, and brought me 1 into choshech, but not into ohr. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
In Context
1I am the gever that hath seen affliction 1 by the rod of His wrath. 1
3Surely against me is He turned; 1 He turneth His yad against me kol hayom. 1
Cross References
Job 18:18He shall be driven from ohr into choshech, 1 and chased out of the tevel. 1
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is mishpat (justice) far from us, 1 neither doth tzedakah overtake us; 1 we wait for ohr, but, hinei, choshech; 1 for negohot (brightness), but we walk in gloom. 1
Jeremiah 13:16Give kavod to Hashem Eloheichem, 1 before He cause darkness, 1 and before your raglayim stumble 1 upon the dark mountains, 1 and, while ye look for ohr, 1 He turn it into the tzalmavet (shadow of death), 1 and make it gross darkness. 1
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off my life in the bor (pit) 1 and cast an even (stone) upon me. 1
Jude 1:6And you have da'as about the malachim (angels), not being content to keep their positions of Memshalah (Rule, Dominion), having deserted their own station, these malachim Hashem has kept under sharsherot (chains) oif eibik (forever), under choshech + 1:6 See 2K 2:4 for the Mishpat HaYom HaGadol, the Judgment of the Great Day. + 1:6 the Yom HaDin
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 →