Lamentations 3:2

Contemporary English Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He has driven me away and forced me to walkin darkness instead of light.

Hebrew Names Version
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

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

New American Standard Bible
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

New Century Version
He led me into darkness, not light.

Amplified Bible
He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

World English Bible
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

Legacy Standard Bible
He has driven me and made me walkIn darkness and not in light.

Berean Standard Bible
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

Complete Jewish Bible
He has led me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.

Darby Translation
Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

Easy-to-Read Version
He led and brought me into darkness, not light.

George Lamsa Translation
He has led me, but I walked in darkness and not in light.

Good News Translation
He drove me deeper and deeper into darkness

Lexham English Bible
He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light.

Literal Translation
He led me and made me go in darkness and not light.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He droue me forth, and led me: yee into darcknesse, but not in to light.

American Standard Version
He hath led me and caused me to 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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.

King James Version (1611)
He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not into light.

English Revised Version
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aleph. He droof me, and brouyte in to derknessis, and not in to liyt.

Update Bible Version
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

New English Translation
He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

New King James Version
He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

New Living Translation
He has led me into darkness, shutting out all light.

New Life Bible
He has led me and brought me into darkness and not into light.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
Me He hath led, and causeth to go [in] darkness, and without light.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Prophet Speaks: I have suffered much because God was angry. ² He chased me into a dark place, where no light could enter. ³ I am the only one he punishes over and over again, without ever stopping. ⁴ God caused my skin and flesh to waste away, and he crushed my bones. ⁵ He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble; ⁶ he forced me to sit in the dark like someone long dead. ⁷ God built a fence around me that I cannot climb over, and he chained me down. ⁸ Even when I shouted and prayed for help, he refused to listen. ⁹ God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path. ¹⁰ God was like a bear or a lion waiting in ambush for me;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brought: Lamentations 3:53-55, Lamentations 2:1, Deuteronomy 28:29, Job 18:18, Job 30:26, Isaiah 59:9, Jeremiah 13:16, Amos 5:18-20, Jude 1:6, Jude 1:13

Reciprocal: Job 10:3 - Is it good Job 22:11 - darkness Psalms 66:11 - broughtest Psalms 88:6 - darkness Isaiah 5:30 - if one look Isaiah 50:10 - that walketh

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Your words spread poison like the bite of a cobra

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness,.... Which oftentimes signifies distress, calamity, and affliction, of one sort or another: thus the Jews were brought into the darkness of captivity; Jeremiah to the darkness of a dungeon, to which there may be an allusion; and Christ his antitype was under the hidings of God's face; and at the same time there was darkness all around him, and all over the land; and all this is attributed to God; it being by his appointment, and by his direction and permission:

but not [into] light; prosperity and joy; the affliction still continuing; though God does in his due time bring his people to the light of comfort, and of his gracious presence, as he did the above persons; see Psalms 97:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Lamentations 3:2. He hath - brought me into darkness — In the sacred writings, darkness is often taken for calamity; light, for prosperity.