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He has drivenנָהַגmeאוֹתִיand made me walkוַיֹּלַךְin darknessחֹשֶׁךְand notוְלֹאin light.אוֹר
Lamentations 3:2
Study it in the app“He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.”
The poet of Lamentations describes his suffering without adornmentSuffering and Trials
With the Hebrew beneath
Lamentations 3:2, word by word
- He has drivenנָהַגnahag
drive, lead
Drive, lead along (livestock, people); carry off.
Where else “nahag” appears- and made me walkיֹּלַךְyolach
walk
To conduct oneself day by day in a certain way, as one walks along a road.
Where else “yolach” appears- in darknessחֹשֶׁךְchoshech
gloom
Distress, ignorance or death.
Where else “choshech” appears- in lightאוֹרor
light
The brightness that comes from the sun, the day or a lamp and lets one see.
Where else “or” appears
The context
1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 · This verse (above)
3Surely against me he turns back, he turns his hand all the day.