Parallel Verses
King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
New American Standard Bible
In
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.
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 the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Jeremiah 4:23
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Lamentations 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Lamentations 3:53-55
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Amos 5:18-20
Woe unto 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.
Jude 1:6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.