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Lamentations 3:2
2He has led me into the dark. There is no light, so I cannot see the right way.
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 trouble. God punished me because he was angry with me. He has led me into the dark. There is no light, so I cannot see the right way. 3He is completely against me. He causes me trouble all the time. 4God has caused my skin and my whole body to become old. He has broken my bones.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:2 word by word
אוֹתִ֥י נָהַ֛ג וַיֹּלַ֖ךְ חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְלֹא־אֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:2
- Lamentations 3:53They put me alive into the well, and they threw stones down on me.
- Lamentations 2:1The Lord was very angry. He wanted Zion's people to be ashamed. Zion was the most beautiful city in Israel. But he has put it down to the ground from its high place. Zion was like a place where he had rested his feet. Now that he is angry, he has forgotten about that.
- Deuteronomy 28:29Even at midday, you will not see your way. You will be in the dark, like a blind person. You will not be able to go anywhere, whatever you do. Every day, people will be cruel to you. People will rob you. No one will be there to save you.
- Job 18:18The wicked person has had to leave this world. He has gone from a place where there is light to a place where it is dark.
- Job 30:26But when I hoped for good things to happen, trouble came instead. When I looked for light to shine on me, everything became dark.
- Isaiah 59:9Because of that, God's justice is far away from us. He has not come to save us. We look for light to come to us, but everything is dark. We need some light in our lives, but all we have is darkness.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give honour to the Lord your God, before it is too late. Do it before he makes everywhere become dark. Then you will fall down, like someone who walks on the mountains at night. You may hope for light to come, but God will make it completely dark.
- Amos 5:18You want the special day of the Lord to come. But it will be very bad for you! You think that God will punish your enemies on that day. But that day will not bring light to you, it will bring darkness.
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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