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Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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THE MESSAGE
Lamentations 3:2
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Christian Standard Bible®
He has driven me away and forced me to walkin darkness instead of light.
He has driven me away and forced me to walkin darkness instead of light.
Hebrew Names Version
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
King James Version
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
English Standard Version
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
New American Standard Bible
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
New Century Version
He led me into darkness, not light.
He led me into darkness, not light.
Amplified Bible
He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
World English Bible
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
Legacy Standard Bible
He has driven me and made me walkIn darkness and not in light.
He has driven me and made me walkIn darkness and not in light.
Berean Standard Bible
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
Contemporary English Version
He chased me into a dark place, where no light could enter.
He chased me into a dark place, where no light could enter.
Complete Jewish Bible
He has led me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.
He has led me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.
Darby Translation
Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
Easy-to-Read Version
He led and brought me into darkness, not light.
He led and brought me into darkness, not light.
George Lamsa Translation
He has led me, but I walked in darkness and not in light.
He has led me, but I walked in darkness and not in light.
Good News Translation
He drove me deeper and deeper into darkness
He drove me deeper and deeper into darkness
Lexham English Bible
He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light.
He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light.
Literal Translation
He led me and made me go in darkness and not light.
He led me and made me go in darkness and not light.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He droue me forth, and led me: yee into darcknesse, but not in to light.
He droue me forth, and led me: yee into darcknesse, but not in to light.
American Standard Version
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Bible in Basic English
By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
King James Version (1611)
He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light.
He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.
He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not into light.
He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not into light.
English Revised Version
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aleph. He droof me, and brouyte in to derknessis, and not in to liyt.
Aleph. He droof me, and brouyte in to derknessis, and not in to liyt.
Update Bible Version
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Webster's Bible Translation
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
New English Translation
He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
New King James Version
He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
New Living Translation
He has led me into darkness, shutting out all light.
He has led me into darkness, shutting out all light.
New Life Bible
He has led me and brought me into darkness and not into light.
He has led me and brought me into darkness and not into light.
New Revised Standard
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;
Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
Revised Standard Version
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
Young's Literal Translation
Me He hath led, and causeth to go [in] darkness, and without light.
Me He hath led, and causeth to go [in] darkness, and without light.
Contextual Overview
1 I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God 's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again. 4He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin. 7He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet. Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered. 10He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce. He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me. He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice. 13He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks. 16He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." 19I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
brought: Lamentations 3:53-55, Lamentations 2:1, Deuteronomy 28:29, Job 18:18, Job 30:26, Isaiah 59:9, Jeremiah 13:16, Amos 5:18-20, Jude 1:6, Jude 1:13
Reciprocal: Job 10:3 - Is it good Job 22:11 - darkness Psalms 66:11 - broughtest Psalms 88:6 - darkness Isaiah 5:30 - if one look Isaiah 50:10 - that walketh
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness,.... Which oftentimes signifies distress, calamity, and affliction, of one sort or another: thus the Jews were brought into the darkness of captivity; Jeremiah to the darkness of a dungeon, to which there may be an allusion; and Christ his antitype was under the hidings of God's face; and at the same time there was darkness all around him, and all over the land; and all this is attributed to God; it being by his appointment, and by his direction and permission:
but not [into] light; prosperity and joy; the affliction still continuing; though God does in his due time bring his people to the light of comfort, and of his gracious presence, as he did the above persons; see Psalms 97:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Lamentations 3:2. He hath - brought me into darkness — In the sacred writings, darkness is often taken for calamity; light, for prosperity.
