Lamentations 3:2

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:26 : 26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold, there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.
  • Lam 2:1 : 1 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in his anger with a cloud! He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
  • Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They threw me alive into a pit and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over my head; I thought, 'I am cut off.' 55 I called on Your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit.
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you desire it? The day of the Lord will be darkness and not light. 19 It will be as if a man flees from a lion, only to be met by a bear; or as if he enters his house, rests his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him. 20 Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not stay within their proper domain but abandoned their dwelling, He has kept in eternal chains under darkness for the judgment on the great day.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Deut 28:29 : 29 At midday, you will grope around like a blind person in the dark. You will not prosper in your ways; you will be continually oppressed and robbed, with no one to save you.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Lam 3:3-7
    5 verses
    84%

    3Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

    4He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

    5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

    7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.

  • Lam 3:1
    82%

    1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    81%

    8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

    9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

  • Job 29:3
    80%

    3when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

  • Lam 3:9-12
    4 verses
    80%

    9He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    10He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

    12He has bent His bow and made me the target for His arrows.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

    22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

    12even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • Job 23:17
    77%

    17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Lam 1:13
    75%

    13From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

  • Job 3:23
    75%

    23To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 3:20
    75%

    20Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?

  • Job 16:11
    75%

    11God has handed me over to the unjust and thrown me into the hands of the wicked.

  • Ps 43:3
    74%

    3Send Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to Your dwelling place.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    74%

    29For you are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD illumines my darkness.

  • Job 3:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

  • Ps 88:6
    74%

    6Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.

  • Job 18:6
    74%

    6The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • Job 30:26
    74%

    26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.

  • Ps 18:28
    74%

    28You save a humble people, but You bring low those whose eyes are haughty.

  • Lam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.

    16He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Job 18:18
    74%

    18He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

    13If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,

  • Amos 5:20
    73%

    20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Isa 42:16
    73%

    16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; along unfamiliar paths, I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them into light and make the rough places level. These are the things I will do, and I will not abandon them.

  • Ps 142:3
    73%

    3I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my troubles to Him.

  • Job 30:19
    73%

    19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • Job 5:14
    73%

    14They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • Job 38:19
    73%

    19Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

  • Job 12:25
    73%

    25They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

  • Isa 8:22
    73%

    22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

  • Jer 13:16
    73%

    16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.

  • Mic 7:9
    73%

    9Because I have sinned against Him, I will bear the indignation of the LORD until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light, and I will see His righteousness.

  • Isa 38:15
    73%

    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

  • Job 3:9
    72%

    9Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.