Lamentations 3:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.”
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BSBPD
“He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Me He hath led, and causeth to go <FI>in<Fi> darkness, and without light.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:2 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
- Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
- Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
- Lamentations 3:53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Amos 5:18Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
- Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
- Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
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