Berean Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:2
2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
Lamentations 3:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
- New International Version (NIV)He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
- English Standard Version (ESV)he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
Context of Lamentations 3:2
1I 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. 3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. 4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:2 word by word
אוֹתִ֥י נָהַ֛ג וַיֹּלַ֖ךְ חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְלֹא־אֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:2
- Lamentations 3:53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
- Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
- Isaiah 59:9Therefore 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.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- Amos 5:18Woe 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.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2He hath - brought me into darkness - In the sacred writings, darkness is often taken for calamity, light, for prosperity.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-66La 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 countrymen also in the siege. Both were types of that of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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