Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
He has led me brought me into darkness, not into light.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Holman Bible
in darkness instead of light.
A Conservative Version
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
American Standard Version
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Amplified
He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
Bible in Basic English
By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
Darby Translation
Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
Julia Smith Translation
He led me and he brought darkness and not light
King James 2000
He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light.
Modern King James verseion
He has led me and made me go in darkness and not into light.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He drove me forth, and led me: Yea, into darkness, but not in to light.
NET Bible
He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
New Heart English Bible
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
The Emphasized Bible
Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light.
Interlinear
Nahag
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
1 I am a man familiar with affliction under the rod of God's anger. 2 He has led me brought me into darkness, not into light. 3 He truly turned his hand against me, again and again, all day long.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:26
I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.
Isaiah 59:9
"So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look there is darkness; we wait for brightness, but we walk in deep darkness.
Deuteronomy 28:29
As a result, you'll wander aimlessly in broad daylight just as a blind person wanders in darkness. You won't prosper in life. Instead, you'll be oppressed and plundered all day long, with no deliverer.
Job 18:18
He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape.
Jeremiah 4:23
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void, at the heavens, and there was no light there.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.
Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord in his wrath shamed cherished Zion! He cast down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, He did not remember his footstool in the time of his anger.
Lamentations 3:53-55
They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone.
Amos 5:18-20
"Woe to those who are craving the Day of the LORD! How is it to your benefit, this Day of the LORD? It's a day of darkness to you, and not light.
Jude 1:6
He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.
Jude 1:13
They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.