Lamentations 3:2
He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.
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- Job 30:26 : 26 Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euyll came vnto me: & where I wayted for light, there came darkenesse.
- Isa 59:9 : 9 And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs, and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs: We loke for light, lo it is darknesse: for the morning shine, see, we walke in the darke.
- Jer 4:23 : 23 I haue loked vpon the earth, and see it was waste and voyde: I loked towarde heauen, and it had no shine.
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Honour the Lorde your God or he take his light from you, and or euer your feete stumble in darcknesse at the hyll: lest when you loke for the lyght, he turne it into the shadowe and darcknesse of death.
- Lam 2:1 : 1 Alas howe hath the Lorde darckened the daughter of Sion in his wrath? As for the honour of Israel he hath cast it downe fro heauen vnto the earth, and he remembred not his owne footestole when he was angry?
- Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They haue put downe my life into a pit, and they haue cast stones vpon me. 54 They haue powred water vpon my head: then thought I, nowe am I vndone. 55 I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit.
- Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Wo vnto you that desire the day of the Lorde, what haue ye to do with it? the day of the Lorde is darkenes, and not light. 19 As if a man dyd flee from a lion, and a beare meete him, & went into the house, and leaned his hand vnto the wal, and a serpent bite hym. 20 Shall not the day of the Lorde be darkenesse, and not light? euen darkenesse and no light in it.
- Jude 1:6 : 6 The Angels also which kept not their first estate, but left their owne habitation, he hath reserued in euerlastyng chaynes vnder darkenesse, vnto the iudgement of the great day.
- Jude 1:13 : 13 They are the ragyng waues of the sea, fomyng out their owne shame: They are wandryng starres, to whom is reserued the mist of darknes for euer.
- Deut 28:29 : 29 Thou shalt grope at noone dayes as the blinde gropeth in darknesse, & shal not prosper in thy wayes: Thou shalt be oppressed with wrong, & be poulled euermore, & no man shall succour thee.
- Job 18:18 : 18 They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Lam 3:3-75 verses84%
3Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me.
4My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised.
5He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile.
6He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.
7He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me.
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1I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.
- Job 19:8-92 verses81%
8He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.
9He hath spoyled me of myne honour, and taken the crowne away from my head.
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3When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:
- Lam 3:9-124 verses80%
9He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.
10He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole.
11He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether.
12He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses79%
3For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my lyfe downe to the grounde: he hath layde me in darknesse as men that haue ben long dead.
4And my spirite is ouerwhelmed within me: and my heart is desolate in the midst of me.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21Afore I go thyther from whence I shall not turne againe, euen to the lande of darknesse and shadowe of death:
22Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.
- Ps 139:11-122 verses77%
11And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me: and the night shalbe day for me,
12Truely the darknesse shall not darken any thing from thee, and the night shalbe as lyghtsome as the day: darknesse and lyght to thee are both a lyke.
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17Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.
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13From aboue hath he sent downe a fire into my bones, and it burneth them cruelly: he hath layde a net for my feete, and throwen me wyde open, he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournyng.
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23From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God?
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20Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes?
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11God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes of the wicked.
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3Sende foorth thy light and thy trueth: that they may leade me and direct me vnto thy holy hyll, & to thy tabernacles.
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29For thou art my lyght, O Lorde: and the Lorde shall light my darkenesse.
- Job 3:4-52 verses74%
4The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:
5But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the dimme cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day.
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6Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit: in darknes and in deepenes.
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6The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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26Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euyll came vnto me: & where I wayted for light, there came darkenesse.
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28Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses74%
15He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke.
16He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust.
17He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.
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18They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.
- Job 17:12-132 verses74%
12Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse.
13Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke.
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20Shall not the day of the Lorde be darkenesse, and not light? euen darkenesse and no light in it.
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16I wyll bryng the blinde into a streete that they know not, and leade them into a foote path that they are ignoraunt in: I shall make darknesse light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight: These things haue I done vnto them, and not forsaken them.
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3When my spirite was ouerwhelmed within me, thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked they haue priuily layde a snare for me.
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19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.
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14They runne into darknesse by fayre day, and grope at the noone day as in the night.
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19Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?
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25They grope in the darke without light, and he maketh them to stacker like a drunken man.
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22And beholde there is trouble and darknesse, dymnesse is rounde about him, & he shalbe driuen into darknesse.
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16Honour the Lorde your God or he take his light from you, and or euer your feete stumble in darcknesse at the hyll: lest when you loke for the lyght, he turne it into the shadowe and darcknesse of death.
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9I will beare the wrath of the Lord, for I haue offended hym till he sit in iudgement vpon my cause, and see that I haue right: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.
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15What shall I say? The Lorde hath made a promise to me, yea and he hym selfe hath perfourmed it: I shall therefore so long as I lyue remember this bitternesse of my lyfe.
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9Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day: