He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.

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He has driven me away and made me walk
    in darkness(A) rather than light;

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Sin Confessed

Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
(A)We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!

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So justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;(A)
    for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

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26 (A)But when I looked for good, evil came to me;
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

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26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.(A)

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13 (A)raging waves of the sea, (B)foaming up their own shame; wandering stars (C)for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

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13 They are wild waves of the sea,(A) foaming up their shame;(B) wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.(C)

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And the angels who did not keep their [a]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:6 own

And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.(A)

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18 (A)Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is (B)the day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
19 It will be (C)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?

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The Day of the Lord

18 Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!(A)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?(B)
    That day will be darkness,(C) not light.(D)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,(E)
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.(F)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(G) not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(H)

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53 They [a]silenced my life (A)in the pit
And (B)threw [b]stones at me.
54 (C)The waters flowed over my head;
(D)I said, “I am cut off!”

55 (E)I called on Your name, O Lord,
From the lowest (F)pit.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:53 LXX put to death
  2. Lamentations 3:53 Lit. a stone on

53 They tried to end my life in a pit(A)
    and threw stones at me;
54 the waters closed over my head,(B)
    and I thought I was about to perish.(C)

55 I called on your name, Lord,
    from the depths(D) of the pit.(E)

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God’s Anger with Jerusalem

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a (A)cloud in His anger!
(B)He cast down from heaven to the earth
(C)The beauty of Israel,
And did not remember (D)His footstool
In the day of His anger.

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[a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
    with the cloud of his anger[b]!(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
    from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool(B)
    in the day of his anger.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt

16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes (B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are (C)looking for light,
He turns it into (D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.

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16 Give glory(A) to the Lord your God
    before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble(B)
    on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
    but he will turn it to utter darkness
    and change it to deep gloom.(C)

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23 (A)I beheld the earth, and indeed it was (B)without form, and void;
And the heavens, they had no light.

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23 I looked at the earth,
    and it was formless and empty;(A)
and at the heavens,
    and their light(B) was gone.

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18 [a]He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:18 Or They drive him

18 He is driven from light into the realm of darkness(A)
    and is banished(B) from the world.(C)

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29 And you shall (A)grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.

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29 At midday you will grope(A) about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue(B) you.

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