Lamentations 3:2
in Lamentations 3He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
KJV
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseSecond, a subtraction of consolation is viewed. "He has driven and brought me into darkness without any light." Since, after blows, no consolation is offered in the accustomed manner. Thus, Job 3:23 asks: "Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom …
This site's exposition
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath
on Lamentations 3:1-6
Chapter 3 is a triple acrostic, sixty-six verses for the same twenty-two Hebrew letters, three verses given to each letter instead of one, the discipline of the first two chapters tightened rather than relaxed at the point of deepest grief. The voice shifts from the city's own lament to a single man's, I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath, which the bench reads as the prophet's own witness standing for the city's, one representative sufferer speaking what the whole community bears. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light states the opening condition in one line, guidance itself turned toward night, and the images that follow, flesh made old, bones broken, compassed with gall and travail, build the case in the body's own terms before any explanation is offered.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אוֹתִ֥י | ʾoti | <obj.> me | H853 → | 10935 times |
| נָהַ֛ג | nahag | he has driven | H5090 → | |
| וַיֹּלַ֖ךְ | vaiyolakh | and he has made walk | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| חֹ֥שֶׁךְ | choshekh | darkness | H2822 → | |
| וְלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אֽוֹר׃ | ʾor | light | H216 → |
אוֹתִ֥י<obj.> me
ʾotiH853 →10935 times
נָהַ֛גhe has driven
nahagH5090 →
וַיֹּלַ֖ךְand he has made walk
vaiyolakhH1980 →1546 times
חֹ֥שֶׁךְdarkness
choshekhH2822 →
וְלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
אֽוֹר׃light
ʾorH216 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
it leads to
- 2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- Matthew 25:41
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- Matthew 8:29
“What do You want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have You come here to torture us before the appointed time?”
- 2 Peter 2:9
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
- 2 Peter 2:4
Through
Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 8:15
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 14:19
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
- Job 3:25–26
For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
- Jeremiah 8:15
Where this verse is studied
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.