Lamentations 3:2
1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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.
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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
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextAmos 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:23
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Read in contextJude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Read in contextJob 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Read in contextLamentations 3:53–55
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Read in contextJude 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.
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