Lamentations 3:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:26 : 26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,
  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I looked `to' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.
  • Lam 2:1 : 1 How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven `to' earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
  • Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me. 54 Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off. 55 I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why `is' this to you -- the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light, 19 As `when' one fleeth from the face of the lion, And the bear hath met him, And he hath come in to the house, And hath leant his hand on the wall, And the serpent hath bitten him. 20 Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.
  • Deut 28:29 : 29 and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

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    3Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

    4He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

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    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

    7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

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    1I `am' the man `who' hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

  • Job 19:8-9
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    8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

    9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

  • Job 29:3
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    3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.

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    9He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

    10A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

    11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

    12He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

    4And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

    22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.

    12Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as `is' darkness so `is' light.

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    17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

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    23To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

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    20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

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    11God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

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    3Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They -- they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
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    29For Thou `art' my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.

  • Job 3:4-5
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    4That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

  • Ps 88:6
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    6Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

  • Job 30:26
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    26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

  • Ps 18:28
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    28For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

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    15He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood.

    16And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

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    18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

    13If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

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    16And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These `are' the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.

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    3When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way `in' which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

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    19Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

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    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

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    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

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    25They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

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    22And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

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    16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

  • Mic 7:9
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    9The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness.

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    15-- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.