Lamentations 3:2

Old Testament • 4 words with Strong's data

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

Word-by-Word Analysis

He hath

יָלַךְ

yâlak

H3212

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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me and

בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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me into

חֹשֶׁךְ

chôshek

H2822

the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

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but not into

אוֹר

ʼôwr

H216

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

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Key Terms in This Verse

led H3212

יָלַךְ yâlak

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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darkness H2822

חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek

the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

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light H216

אוֹר ʼôwr

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

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brought H935

בּוֹא bôwʼ

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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Cross References

Job 30:26 cross-reference

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Isaiah 59:9 cross-reference

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 cross-reference

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 da...

Job 18:18 cross-reference

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Deuteronomy 28:29 cross-reference

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.

Lamentations 2:1 cross-reference

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!

Jude 1:6 cross-reference

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.

Jeremiah 4:23 cross-reference

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Jude 1:13 cross-reference

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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