Lamentations 3:2
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 3
“He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.”Lamentations 3:2
What Does Lamentations 3:2 Mean?
Lamentations 3:2 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 3, verse 2 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 17 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (17)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 3:2 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
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.”Job 22:11“Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.”Psalms 88:6“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.”Amos 5:18“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.”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 10:3“Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?”Job 18:18“He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.”Psalms 66:11“Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.”Isaiah 5:30“And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.”Jeremiah 4:23“I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.”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.”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!”Lamentations 3:53“They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.”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.”Isaiah 50:10“Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.”
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