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The Nature of Total Darkness
Commentators explain that the phrase 'darkness, and not in light' is a Hebrew idiom for absolute, total darkness. This describes a profound state of affliction and perplexity where every source of comfort—from God's Word to daily mercies—feels completely cut off.
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Lamentations
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Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:2
19th Century
Bishop
Into darkness. —The moral darkness of perplexity as well as misery. The cry of the mourner was like that of Ajax (Hom. Il.
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:2
19th Century
Preacher
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
A Hebrew method of saying that it was a thick darkness without an…
John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:2
16th Century
Theologian
The letters of the alphabet are tripled in this chapter, a point I previously omitted to mention. In the first two chapters, each verse begins with…
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John Gill
On Lamentations 3:2
17th Century
Pastor
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness Which often signifies distress, calamity, and affliction, of one sort or a…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:1–20
17th Century
Minister
The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…