English Standard Version
Lamentations 3:2
2he has driven and brought me into darkness without any 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;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He has led me into darkness, shutting out all light.
Context of Lamentations 3:2
1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; 3surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. 4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; 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 flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;
- Lamentations 2:1How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Deuteronomy 28:29and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
- Job 18:18He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
- Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
- Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and 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 twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.
- Amos 5:18Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is 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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