Lamentations 3:2
Me He hath led, and causeth to go [in] darkness, and without light.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
In Context
1I [am] the man [who] hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
3Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.
Cross References
Job 18:18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness — in thick darkness we go,
Jeremiah 13:16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed [it] for thick darkness.
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
Jude 1:6messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,
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 →