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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He hath led
nahag (Hebrew #5090)
to drive forth (a person, an animal or chariot), i.e. lead, carry away; reflexively, to proceed (i.e. impel or guide oneself); also (from the panting induced by effort), to sigh
KJV usage: acquaint, bring (away), carry away, drive (away), lead (away, forth), (be) guide, lead (away, forth).
Pronounce: naw-hag'
Origin: a primitive root
me, and brought
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
me into darkness
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
z, but not into light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
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Amos 5:20• 20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:20)

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Cross References

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Lam. 3:53‑55• 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
 54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
 55I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. (Lam. 3:53‑55)
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Lam. 2:1• 1How 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! (Lam. 2:1)
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Deut. 28:29• 29And 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. (Deut. 28:29)
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Job 18:18• 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. (Job 18:18)
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Job 30:26• 26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. (Job 30:26)
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Isa. 59:9• 9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. (Isa. 59:9)
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Jer. 13:16• 16Give 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 darkness. (Jer. 13:16)
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Amos 5:18‑20• 18Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
 19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
 20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18‑20)
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Jude 6,13• 6And 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.
 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. (Jude 6,13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.