Lamentations 3:2
Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, by the rod of his indignation;
3Surely, against me, doth he again and again, turn his hand all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;
Isaiah 59:9For this cause, hath justice removed far from us, And righteousness overtaketh us not,—We wait for light, But lo! darkness, For brightness, In thick darkness, we walk:
Jeremiah 13:16Give ye to Yahweh your God—glory, Before he cause darkness, and Before your feet stumble upon the twilight mountains; Lest, when ye wait for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, And change it for thick darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;
Jude 1:6Messengers also, even them who had not kept their own principality, but had forsaken their proper dwelling, unto the judgment of the great day in perpetual bonds under thick gloom, hath he reserved.
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 →