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Lamentations 3:2

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Me He hath led, and causeth to go [in] darkness, and without light.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— He hath led me and brought [mee into] darkenesse, but not into light.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— He has led me, but I walked in darkness and not in light.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not [into] light.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
He hath led 5090
{5090} Prime
נָהַג
nahag
{naw-hag'}
A primitive root; to drive forth (a person, an animal or chariot), that is, lead, carry away; reflexively to proceed (that is, impel or guide oneself); also (from the panting induced by effort), to sigh.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
me, and brought y3212
[3212] Standard
יָלַך
yalak
{yaw-lak'}
A primitive root (compare H1980); to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively to carry (in various senses).
z8686
<8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 4046
x1980
(1980) Complement
הָלַךְ
halak
{haw-lak'}
Akin to H3212; a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively).
[me into] darkness, 2822
{2822} Prime
חֹשֶׁךְ
choshek
{kho-shek'}
From H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness.
but not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
[into] light. 216
{0216} Prime
אוֹר
'owr
{ore}
From H0215; illumination or (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Lamentations 3:1-3.


Lamentations 3:2

_ _ darkness — calamity.

_ _ light — prosperity.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
brought:

Lamentations 3:53-55 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. ... I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations 2:1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Deuteronomy 28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
Job 18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Isaiah 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
Amos 5:18-20 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. ... [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
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Dt 28:29. Jb 18:18; 30:26. Is 59:9. Jr 13:16. Lm 2:1; 3:53. Am 5:18. Jde 1:6, 13.

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