Lamentations 3:2

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light.

YLT

Me He hath led, and causeth to go [in] darkness, and without light.

DBY

Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

DRC

Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

GNV

He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.

JPS

He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.

LXXE

He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not into light.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אוֹתִ֥י נָהַ֛ג וַיֹּלַ֖ךְ חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְלֹא־אֽוֹר׃

LXX-Br

Παρέλαβέ με καὶ ἀπήγαγέ με εἰς σκότος, καὶ οὐ φῶς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• Amos 5:18–20Woe 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. It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house…
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lamentations 3:53–55They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
• Jude 1:6And 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.
• Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
• Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
• Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.

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