Lamentations 3:2

Israel's Affliction

¹ I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s wrath.
² He has driven me away and forced me to walk
in darkness instead of light.
³ Yes, He repeatedly turns His hand
against me all day long.

In the Light

Walk in Darkness

Brought Me Into Darkness

Deep Darkness

No

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, darkness came.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, but we live in the night.

Deuteronomy 28:29

so that at noon you will grope as a blind man gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.

Job 18:18

He is driven from light to darkness
and chased from the inhabited world.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth,
and it was formless and empty.
I looked to the heavens,
and their light was gone.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God
before He brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the mountains at dusk.
You wait for light,
but He brings darkest gloom
and makes thick darkness.

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord has overshadowed
Daughter Zion with His anger!
He has thrown down Israel’s glory
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool
in the day of His anger.

Lamentations 3:53-55

They dropped me alive into a pit
and threw stones at me.

Amos 5:18-20

Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord!
What will the Day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.

Jude 1:6

and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever!