Lamentations 3:2
◄  Lamentations 3:2  ►
New International Version (©2011)
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;

New Living Translation (©2007)
He has led me into darkness, shutting out all light.

English Standard Version (©2001)
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He has driven me away and forced me to walk in darkness instead of light.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He has led me—brought me into darkness, not into light.

NET Bible (©2006)
He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
God has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

American King James Version
He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

American Standard Version
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

Darby Bible Translation
Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

English Revised Version
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

World English Bible
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Young's Literal Translation
Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness,.... Which oftentimes signifies distress, calamity, and affliction, of one sort or another: thus the Jews were brought into the darkness of captivity; Jeremiah to the darkness of a dungeon, to which there may be an allusion; and Christ his antitype was under the hidings of God's face; and at the same time there was darkness all around him, and all over the land; and all this is attributed to God; it being by his appointment, and by his direction and permission:

but not into light; prosperity and joy; the affliction still continuing; though God does in his due time bring his people to the light of comfort, and of his gracious presence, as he did the above persons; see Psalm 97:11.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. darkness—calamity.

light—prosperity.

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Jeremiah's Afflictions
1I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day. …

Job 30:26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
Isaiah 59:9 So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
Jeremiah 4:23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.