Lamentations 3:2
He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 30:26 : 26 Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.
- Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doeth iustice come neere vnto vs: we waite for light, but loe, it is darkenesse: for brightnesse, but we walke in darkenesse.
- Jer 4:23 : 23 I haue looked vpon the earth, and loe, it was without forme and voide: and to the heauens, and they had no light.
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Giue glory to the Lorde your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse.
- Lam 2:1 : 1 Howe hath the Lord darkened the daughter of Zion in his wrath! and hath cast downe from heauen vnto the earth the beautie of Israel, and remembred not his footestoole in the day of his wrath!
- Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me. 54 Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed. 55 I called vpon thy Name, O Lorde, out of the lowe dungeon.
- Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Woe vnto you, that desire the day of the Lord: what haue you to do with it? the day of the Lord is darkenes and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lyon, & a beare met him: or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Shal not the day of the Lord be darkenes, and not light? euen darkenes and no light in it?
- Jude 1:6 : 6 The Angels also which kept not their first estate, but left their owne habitation, hee hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darkenesse vnto the iudgement of the great day.
- Jude 1:13 : 13 They are the raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame: they are wandring starres, to whome is reserued the blackenesse of darkenesse for euer.
- Deut 28:29 : 29 Thou shalt also grope at noone daies, as the blinde gropeth in darknes, and shalt not prosper in thy wayes: thou shalt neuer but bee oppressed with wrong and be powled euermore, & no man shal succour thee.
- Job 18:18 : 18 They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
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- Lam 3:3-75 verses84%
3Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
6He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.
7He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
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1I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.
- Job 19:8-92 verses81%
8Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
9Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
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3When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,
- Lam 3:9-124 verses80%
9He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
10He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
11He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses79%
3For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: he hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long agoe:
4And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:
22Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
- Ps 139:11-122 verses77%
11If I say, Yet the darkenes shal hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.
12Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.
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17For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.
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13From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.
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23Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
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11God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.
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3Sende thy light and thy trueth: let them leade mee: let them bring mee vnto thine holy Mountaine and to thy Tabernacles.
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29Surely thou art my light, O Lorde: and the Lorde will lighten my darkenes.
- Job 3:4-52 verses74%
4Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,
5But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.
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6Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit, in darkenes, and in the deepe.
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6The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
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26Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.
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28Surely thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God wil lighten my darkenes.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses74%
15He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood.
16He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
17Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,
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18They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
- Job 17:12-132 verses74%
12Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.
13Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.
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20Shal not the day of the Lord be darkenes, and not light? euen darkenes and no light in it?
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16And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.
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3Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.
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19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
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14They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
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19Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,
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25They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken ma.
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22And when he shall looke to the earth, beholde trouble, and darkenes, vexation and anguish, and he is driuen to darkenes.
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16Giue glory to the Lorde your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse.
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9I will beare the wrath of the Lord because I haue sinned against him, vntill he pleade my cause, and execute iudgement for me: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.
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15What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.
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9Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,