Lamentations 3:2
1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3 Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
4 He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
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Compare
- BSB
- He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
- KJV
- He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
- 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.
- DARBY
- Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
- BLB
- He has led me and has made me walk [in] darkness, and not light;
- ÅB
- Meg har han ledet og ført i mørke og ikke i lys.
- OTB
- Han har drevet meg bort og fått meg til å vandre i mørke, ikke lys;
- B1930
- Mig har han ledet og ført i mørke og ikke i lys.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
Read in contextIsaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Read in contextAmos 5:18–20
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:23
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
Read in contextJude 1:13
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
Read in contextJob 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Read in contextLamentations 3:53–55
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
Read in contextJude 1:6
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
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