THEOSISLamentations 3:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
אוֹתִ֥י נָהַ֛ג וַיֹּלַ֖ךְ חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְלֹא־אֽוֹר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 30:26I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
- Isa 59:9Therefore 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.
- Amos 5:18Woe 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.
- Amos 5:20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
- Deut 28:29And 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.
- Jer 13:16Give 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.
- Lam 2:1Aleph. 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.
- Jer 4:23I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them.