Lamentations 3:2
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
- Jer 4:23 : 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
- Lam 2:1 : 1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. 55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
- Amos 5:18-20 : 18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, And not light. 19 As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him. 20 Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Jude 1:6 : 6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
- Jude 1:13 : 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved 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 robbed always, and there shall be none to 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 turns his hand again and again all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
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1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
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3 When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
- Lam 3:9-124 verses80%
9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses79%
3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21 Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
- Ps 139:11-122 verses77%
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; The light around me will be night;"
12 Even the darkness doesn't hide from you, But the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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13 From on high has he 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.
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
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20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,
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11 God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
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29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh; Yahweh will lighten my darkness.
- Job 3:4-52 verses74%
4 Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
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6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths.
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6 The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
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26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
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28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses74%
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
- Job 17:12-132 verses74%
12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
13 If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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20 Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
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3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.
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19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
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14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,
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25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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22 and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
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16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you 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 Yahweh, Because I have sinned against him, Until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.
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15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
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9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,