Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Lamentations 3:2 in other translations
| BSB | He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. |
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| WEB | He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
| ASV | He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
| YLT | Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light. |
| DARBY | Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light. |
| BBE | By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. |
| Webster | He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. |
What does Lamentations 3:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:1-3
CHAPTER (ELEGY) 3 La 3:1-66. Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration; hence the change from singular to plural (La 3:22, 40-47). The stanzas consist of three lines, each of which begins with the same Hebrew letter. Aleph. 1-3. seen affliction--his own in the dungeon of Malchiah (Jr 38:6); that of his…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20
The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies. Verses 1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the…
Lamentations 3:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:2
- Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
- Amos 5:18-20
Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Jeremiah 4:23
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
- Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Lamentations 3:53-55
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
- Jude 1:6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
- Lamentations 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
- Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
- Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
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Context
- Lamentations 3:1
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
- Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations 3:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Guióme y llevóme en tinieblas, mas no en luz. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il m’a conduit et amené dans les ténèbres, et non dans la lumière. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mich hat er geleitet und geführt in Finsternis und Dunkel |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Me minavit, et adduxit in tenebras, et non in lucem. |