Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has driven me along, 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.
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.
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 who has seen misery, under the rod of his wrath. 2 He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light. 3 Surely he has turned his hand against me, all day long.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:26
Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! [there is] darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And you shall be groping at noon just as the blind person gropes in the dark, and you shall not succeed [in finding] your way, and you shall only be abused and robbed {all the time}, and there will not be {anyone who will rescue you}.
Job 18:18
"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.
Jeremiah 4:23
I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and [they were] without their light.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.
Lamentations 2:1
How, {in his anger}, the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens [to] earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of {his anger}.
Lamentations 3:53-55
{They have silenced me in a pit}, they have thrown a stone at me.
Amos 5:18-20
Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why [is] this for you the day of Yahweh? It [will be] darkness and not light!
Jude 1:6
And [the] angels who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling place, he has kept in eternal bonds under deep gloom for the judgment of the great day,
Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.