Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He led me and he brought darkness and not 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.
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.
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 The man seeing affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He led me and he brought darkness and not light 3 Surely he will turn back against me; he will turn his hand all the day.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:26
For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come.
Isaiah 59:9
For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou wert groping at noon as the blind shall grope in darkness, and thou shalt not succeed with thy ways: and thou wert only oppressed and stripped all the days, and none saving.
Job 18:18
They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe.
Jeremiah 4:23
I saw the earth, and behold, emptiness and a void; and to the heavens, and no lights.
Jeremiah 13:16
Ye shall give glory to Jehovah your God, before he shall darken, and before your feet shall strike upon the mountains of darkness, and ye waited for light, and he set it for the shadow of death, he will place for gloom.
Lamentations 2:1
How will Jehovah in his anger cover the daughter of Zion! he cast down from the heavens to the earth the beauty of Israel, and he remembered not the footstool of his feet in the day of his anger.
Lamentations 3:53-55
They cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone upon me.
Amos 5:18-20
Wo! to you longing for the day of Jehovah; for what this to you? The day of Jehovah this is darkness and not light
Jude 1:6
Also the angels not having kept their beginning, but having left their own habitation, he has kept in perpetual chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1:13
Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obseurity of darkness has been kept forever.