Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without 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.
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.
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 who hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath. 2 Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light. 3 Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:26
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,
Deuteronomy 28:29
and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.
Job 18:18
They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
Jeremiah 4:23
I looked to the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.
Lamentations 2:1
How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven to earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
Lamentations 3:53-55
They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
Amos 5:18-20
Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why is this to you -- the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light,
Jude 1:6
messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,
Jude 1:13
wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.