Lamentations 3:2
It was as though he caused me to walk in a very dark place without any light at all.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
In Context
3He has punished [IDM] me many times, all day, every day.
Cross References
Job 18:18They will be expelled from the earth where there is light, and they will be sent into the place where it is dark.
Isaiah 59:9Because of that, God does not rescue us from our enemies; it seems that he is not acting fairly/righteously toward us. We expect God to give us light, but all he gives us is darkness [DOU].
Jeremiah 13:16It is as though he is ready to bring darkness on you and to cause you to stumble and fall as you walk on the hills when it is becoming dark. So praise/honor Yahweh your God before that happens. If you do not do that, you will look for light, but all you will see is darkness and gloom.
Lamentations 3:53They threw me into a pit to kill me, and they threw stones on top of me.
Jude 1:6And there were many angels to whom God assigned/gave positions of authority in heaven. But many did not continue to rule with authority in those positions. Instead, they abandoned the place that God gave them to live in heaven. So God has put those angels in chains forever in the darkness in hell. They will stay there until the great day when God will judge and punish them.
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 →