Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Isa 59:9 : 9 ¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
- Jer 4:23 : 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
- Lam 2:1 : 1 ¶ How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
- Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off. 55 ¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
- Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
- Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
- Deut 28:29 : 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
- Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.
6 He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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1 ¶ I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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8 ¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.
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3 When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;
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9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses79%
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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21 Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
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11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.
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23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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20 ¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
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29 For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
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4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses74%
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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16 And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
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3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
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19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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19 Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof,
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25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].
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22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.
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16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
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9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.
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15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: