Lamentations 3:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

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  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was formless and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
  • Lam 2:1 : 1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger, and cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger!
  • Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They cut off my life in the pit and threw a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, 'I am cut off.' 55 I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the lowest pit.
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Woe to 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 fled 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, with no brightness in it?
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
  • Deut 28:29 : 29 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered evermore, and no man shall save you.
  • 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 He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

    4 My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

    5 He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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

    7 He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

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

  • Job 19:8-9
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    8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

    9 He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

  • 3 When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • Lam 3:9-12
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    9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    10 He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

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

    12 He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21 Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22 A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12 Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 13 From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • 20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • 11 God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

  • 3 O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacles.

  • 29 For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

  • Job 3:4-5
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    4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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

  • 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

  • 6 The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • 26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

  • 28 For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

  • Lam 3:15-17
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    15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

    16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

    17 You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12 They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

    13 If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?

  • 16 And I will bring the blind by a way they do not know; I will lead them in paths 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.

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • 19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

  • 25 They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • 22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

  • 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn: