Lamentations 3:2
He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 30:26 : 26 But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.
- Isa 59:9 : 9 Israel Confesses its Sin For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.
- Jer 4:23 : 23 “I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
- Lam 2:1 : 1 א(Alef)The Prophet Speaks: Alas! The Lord has covered Daughter Zion with his anger. He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he did not protect his temple when he displayed his anger.
- Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me. 54 The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die. 55 ק(Qof) I have called on your name, O LORD, from the deepest pit.
- Amos 5:18-20 : 18 The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light. 19 Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake. 20 Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
- Jude 1:6 : 6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.
- Jude 1:13 : 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
- Deut 28:29 : 29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.
- Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
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- Lam 3:3-75 verses84%
3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.
4ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
7ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
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1א(Alef) The Prophet Speaks: I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.
- Job 19:8-92 verses81%
8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.
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3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
- Lam 3:9-124 verses80%
9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
10ד(Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.
11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses79%
3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- Ps 139:11-122 verses77%
11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”
12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
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17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
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13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.
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23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
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20Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
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11God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
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3Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live.
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29Indeed, you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD illumines the darkness around me.
- Job 3:4-52 verses74%
4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
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6You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.
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6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
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26But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.
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28Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses74%
15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
16ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
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18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
- Job 17:12-132 verses74%
12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’
13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
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16I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
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3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
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19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
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19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,
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25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
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22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
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16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
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9I must endure the LORD’s fury, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause, and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will witness his deliverance.
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15What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.
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9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,