Lamentations 3:2

He drove me, and brought (me) into darknesses, and not into light.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

In Context

1I am a man seeing my poverty in the rod of his indignation. (I am a man who seeth my poverty, I have felt the rod of his indignation, or of his anger.)

3Only he turned into me, and turned together his hand all day. (He turned only against me, and he turned his hand against me all day long.)

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Cross References

Job 18:18He shall put him out from light into darknesses; and he shall bear him over from the world. (He shall be put out from the light into the darkness; and he shall be carried over from this world into the next.)

Isaiah 59:9Therefore doom is made far from us, and rightfulness shall not (over)take us; we abided light, and lo! darknesses be; we abided shining, and we went in darknesses. (And so justice is made far from us, and right shall not overtake us; we wait for the light, but behold! there is only darkness; (we wait for) the sun to shine, but still we walk in darkness.)

Jeremiah 13:16Give ye glory to your Lord God, before that it wax dark, and before that your feet hurt at [the] dark hills; ye shall abide light, and he shall set it into the shadow of death, and into darkness. (Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before that it grow dark, and before that your feet stumble on the dark hills; ye shall wait for the light, but he shall turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.)

Lamentations 3:53My life slid into a pit; and they putted a stone on me.

Jude 1:6And he reserved under darkness (the) angels, that kept not their princehood, but forsook their house, into the doom of the great God (or unto the judgement of the great God), into everlasting bonds.

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 →

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