Lamentations 3:2
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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- Job 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
- Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
- Amos 5:18–20 “Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light. As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?