Lamentations 3:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Job 18:18

thrown far from the light into a world of darkness,

Job 30:26

But when I beg for relief and light, all I receive are disaster and darkness.

Isaiah 59:9

No one has come to defend us or to bring about justice. We hoped for a day of sunshine, but all we found was a dark, gloomy night.

Jeremiah 13:16

You hope for light, but God is sending darkness. Evening shadows already deepen in the hills. So return to God and confess your sins to him before you trip and fall.

Jeremiah 4:23

After this, I looked around. The earth was barren, with no form of life. The sun, moon, and stars had disappeared.

Lamentations 2:1

The Lord was angry! So he disgraced Zion though it was Israel's pride and his own place of rest. In his anger he threw Zion down from heaven to earth.

Deuteronomy 28:29

that even in bright sunshine you will have to feel your way around like a blind person, who cannot tell day from night. For the rest of your life, people will beat and rob you, and no one will be able to stop them.

Jude 1:13

Their shameful deeds show up like foam on wild ocean waves. They are like wandering stars for ever doomed to the darkest pits of hell.

Jude 1:6

You also know about the angels who didn't do their work and left their proper places. God chained them with everlasting chains and is now keeping them in dark pits until the great day of judgment.