Lamentations 3:2

Coverdale Bible (1535)

He droue me forth, and led me: yee into darcknesse, but not in to light.

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  • Job 30:26 : 26 Yet neuerthelesse where as I loked for good, euell happened vnto me: and where as I waited for light, there came darcknesse.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 And this is ye cause yt equite is so farre fro vs, & yt rightuousnes cometh not nye vs. We loke for light, lo, it is darknesse: for ye mornynge shyne, se, we walke in ye darke.
  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I haue loked vpon the earth, and se, it is wayst and voyde. I loked towarde heauen, and it had no shyne.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Honoure ye LORDE youre God herein, or he take his light from you, and or euer youre fete stomble in darknesse at ye hill: lest whe ye loke for the light, he turne it in to ye shadowe and darknesse of death.
  • Lam 2:1 : 1 Alas, how hath ye LORDE darckened the doughter of Sion so sore in his wrath? As for the honoure of Israel, he hath casten it downe from heauen: How happeneth it, that he remembred not his owne fote stole, when he was angrie?
  • Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They haue put downe my life in to a pitte, and layed a stone vpon me. 54 They poured water vpon my heade, then thought I: now am I vndone. 55 I called vpon thy name (O LORDE) out of the depe pitte.
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Wo be vnto them that desyre the daye off ye LORDE: Wherfore wolde ye haue it? As for that daye of the LORDE, it shalbe darcke ad not cleare: 19 Yee like as when a ma runeth fro a lyon, and a Beer meteth with him: or, whe he commeth into the house, and leeneth his honde vpon the wall, a serpent byteth him. 20 Shall not the daye of the LORDE be darcke, and not cleare? shal it not be cloudy, and no shyne in it?
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 The angels also which kept not their first estate: but lefte their awne habitacion, he hath reserued in euerlastinge chaynes vnder darcknes vnto the iudgement of the greate daye:
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 They are the ragynge waues of the see, fominge out their awne shame. They are wandrynge starres, to who is reserued the myst of darcknes for euer.
  • Deut 28:29 : 29 And thou shalt grope at the noone daye, as ye blynde gropeth in darknesse, and shalt not prospere in thy waye.And thou shalt suffre vyolence and wronge all thy lifelonge, & no man shal helpe ye.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde.

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  • Lam 3:3-7
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    3 Agaynst me only he turneth his honde, & layeth it euer vpon me.

    4 My flesh & my skynne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he brussed.

    5 He hath buylded rounde aboute me, & closed me in with gall and trauayle.

    6 He hath set me in darcknesse, as they that be deed for euer.

    7 He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, & hath layed heuy lynckes vpon me.

  • 1 I am the ma, that (thorow the rodd of his wrath) haue experiece of misery.

  • Job 19:8-9
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    8 He hath hedged vp my path, I ca not get awaye, he hath set darcknesse in my gate.

    9 He hath spoyled me of myne honoure, & taken the crowne awaye fro my heade.

  • 3 when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse.

  • Lam 3:9-12
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    9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, & made my pathes croked.

    10 He layeth waite for me like a Bere, and as a lyon in a hole.

    11 He hath marred my wayes, and broke me in peces, he hath layed me waist altogether.

    12 He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marck to shute at.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemie persecuteth my soule, he smyteth my life downe to the grounde, he layeth me in the darcknesse, as the deed men of the worlde.

    4 Therfore is my sprete vexed within me, and my herte within me is desolate.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21 afore I go thyther, from whence I shal not turne agayne: Namely, to that londe of darcknesse & shadowe of death:

    22 yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11 Yee the darcknesse is no darcknesse with the, but the night is as cleare as the daye, the darcknesse & light are both alike.

    12 For my reynes are thyne, thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.

  • 17 Thus can not I get out of darcknesse, the cloude hath so couered my face.

  • 13 From aboue hath he sent downe a fyre, in to my bones and chastened me: he hath layed a net for my fete, and throwne me wyde open: he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournynge.

  • 23 To the man whose waye is hyd, which God kepeth backe from him.

  • 20 Wherfore is the light geuen, to him that is in mysery? and life vnto them, that haue heuy hertes?

  • 11 God hath geuen me ouer to the vngodly, and delyuered me in to the hondes of ye wicked.

  • 3 Oh sende out yi light & thy trueth, yt they maye lede me & brynge me vnto thy holy hill and to thy dwellinge.

  • 29 For thou O LORDE art my lanterne. The LORDE shal lighte my darknesse.

  • Job 3:4-5
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    4 The same daye be turned to darcknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpo wt light:

    5 but be couered with darcknesse, and the shadowe of death. Let the dymme cloude fall vpon it, and let it be lapped in with sorowe.

  • 6 Thy indignacion lieth hard vpon me, and thou vexest me with all thy floudes.

  • 6 The light shalbe darcke in his dwellinge, & his candle shalbe put out with him.

  • 26 Yet neuerthelesse where as I loked for good, euell happened vnto me: and where as I waited for light, there came darcknesse.

  • 28 Thou lightest my cadle, o LORDE my God: thou makest my darcknesse to be light.

  • Lam 3:15-17
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    15 He hath fylled me with bytternesse, & geuen me wormwod to drynke.

    16 He hath smytten my teth in peces, & rolled me in the dust.

    17 He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.

  • 18 he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12 chaunginge the night in to daye, & ye light in to darcknes.

    13 Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke.

  • 20 Shall not the daye of the LORDE be darcke, and not cleare? shal it not be cloudy, and no shyne in it?

  • 16 I wil bringe the blinde into a strete, that they knowe not: and lede them in to a fotepath, that they are ignoraunt in. I shal make darknesse light before the, & the thinge yt is croked, to be straight. These thinges will I do, & not forget them.

  • 3 I loke vpon my right honde & se, there is no man that wil knowe me. I haue no place to fle vnto, no man careth for my soule.

  • 19 I am eue as it were claye, & am become like asshes & dust.

  • 14 In so moch that they runne in to darcknesse by fayre daye, and grope aboute them at the noone daye, like as in the night.

  • 19 the shewe me where light dwelleth, and where darcknes is:

  • 25 and grope in the darke without light, stackeringe to and fro like droncken men.

  • 22 and beholde, there is trouble and darcknesse, vexacion is rounde aboute him, and the cloude of erroure And out of soch aduersite, shall he not escape.

  • 16 Honoure ye LORDE youre God herein, or he take his light from you, and or euer youre fete stomble in darknesse at ye hill: lest whe ye loke for the light, he turne it in to ye shadowe and darknesse of death.

  • 9 I will beare the punishment of the LORDE (for why, I haue offended him) till he syt in iudgment vpon my cause, and se that I haue right. He wil bringe me forth to the light, and I shal se his rightuosnesse.

  • 15 What shal I speake or say, ethat he maye this doo? yt I maye lyue out all my yeares, yee in the bytternesse of my life?

  • 9 Let the starres be dymme thorow darcknesse of it. Let it loke for light, but let it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge: