Lamentations 3:2 meaning and explanation

He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

Lamentations 3:2, Berean Standard Bible

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In Lamentations 3 the speaker is the man who has endured Jerusalem's fall, voicing his suffering as if God himself drove him into it. The verse pictures God as a shepherd or guide who forces a person off the path and into darkness, a common biblical image for distress, danger and the loss of direction.

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