Klagelieder 3:2

2 Er hat mich geführt und lassen gehen in die Finsternis und nicht in Licht.

Klagelieder 3:2 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:2

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 ) ( 112:4 ) .

Klagelieder 3:2 In-Context

1 Ich bin ein elender Mann, der die Rute seines Grimmes sehen muß.

2 Er hat mich geführt und lassen gehen in die Finsternis und nicht in Licht.

3 Er hat seine Hand gewendet wider mich und handelt gar anders mit mir für und für.

4 Er hat mir Fleisch und Haut alt gemacht und mein Gebein zerschlagen.

5 Er hat mich verbaut und mich mit Galle und Mühe umgeben.