Lamentations 3:2
Good News Translation
He drove me deeper and deeper into darkness

New Revised Standard Version
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;

Contemporary English Version
He chased me into a dark place, where no light could enter.

New American Bible
One whom he has driven and forced to walk in darkness, not in light;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

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Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

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Lamentations 3:53-55 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. . . .

Lamentations 2:1 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Deuteronomy 28:29 And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

Job 18:18 He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Job 30:26 I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

Isaiah 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.

Jeremiah 13:16 Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.

Amos 5:18-20 Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. . . .

Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
1Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. 2Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.3Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.…
Cross References
Job 30:26
I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.

Jeremiah 4:23
I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them.

Lamentations 3:1
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