Lamentations 3:2

New International Reader's Version

He has driven me away. He has made me walk in darkness instead of light.

Cross References

Job 18:18

They are driven from light into the place of darkness. They are thrown out of the world.

Job 30:26

I hoped good things would happen, but something evil came. I looked for light, but all I saw was darkness.

Isaiah 59:9

We aren’t being treated fairly. We haven’t been set free yet. The God who always does what is right hasn’t come to help us. We look for light, but we see nothing but darkness. We look for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God. Honor him before he sends darkness to cover the land. Do this before you trip and fall on the darkened hills. You hope that light will come. But he will turn it into thick darkness. He will change it to deep shadows.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth. It didn’t have any shape. And it was empty. I looked at the sky. Its light was gone.

Lamentations 2:1

See how the Lord covered the city of Zion with the cloud of his anger! He threw Israel’s glory down from heaven to earth. When he was angry, he turned his back on his own city.

Deuteronomy 28:29

Even at noon you will have to feel your way around like a blind person in the dark. You won’t have success in anything you do. Day after day you will be robbed and treated badly. No one will be able to save you.

Jude 1:13

They are like wild waves of the sea. Their shame rises up like foam. They are like falling stars. God has reserved a place of very black darkness for them forever.

Jude 1:6

Some of the angels didn’t stay where they belonged. They didn’t keep their positions of authority. The Lord has kept those angels in darkness. They are held by chains that last forever. On judgment day, God will judge them.