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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    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

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

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    3For 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.

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    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

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

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    13From 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.

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

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

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    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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

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

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

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

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

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    16And 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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    15What 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.

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