Parallel Verses
Amplified
He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
New American Standard Bible
In
King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Holman Bible
in darkness instead of light.
International Standard Version
He has led me brought me into darkness, not into 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.
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
Because of the rod of His wrath.
He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
Surely He has turned His hand against me
Repeatedly all the day.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:26
“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not overtake us.
We [expectantly] hope for light, but only see darkness;
We hope for gleam of light, but we walk in darkness and gloom.
Deuteronomy 28:29
and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.
Job 18:18
“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.
Jeremiah 4:23
I looked at the earth [in my vision], and behold, it was [as at the time of creation] formless and void;
And to the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God,
Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dark and shadowy mountains,
And while you are longing for light
He turns it into the shadow of death,
And makes it into thick darkness.
Lamentations 2:1
With a cloud in His anger!
He has cast down from heaven to the earth
The glory and splendor of Israel
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.
Lamentations 3:53-55
They silenced me in the pit
And placed a stone over me.
Amos 5:18-20
Woe (judgment is coming) to you who desire the day of the Lord [expecting rescue from the Gentiles]!
Why would you want the day of the Lord?
It is darkness (judgment) and not light [and rescue and prosperity];
Jude 1:6
And angels who did not keep their own designated place of power, but abandoned their proper dwelling place, [these] He has kept in eternal chains under [the thick gloom of utter] darkness for the judgment of the great day,
Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.