Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 3:2

"He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light." — Lamentations 3:2 (ASV)

Into darkness. —The moral darkness of perplexity as well as misery. The cry of the mourner was like that of Ajax (Hom. Il. xvii. 647), “Slay me if you will, but slay me in the light.”