Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Cross-reference
Lamentations 3:53-55 describes the same speaker cast into a pit and crying from darkness—directly continuing the darkness of 3:2.
Lamentations 2:1 says God cast down Israel's splendor under a cloud—a parallel image of God bringing darkness as judgment.
Job 18:18 uses the same 'driven from light into darkness' imagery, directly paralleling being made to walk in darkness.
Psalm 88:6 uses the same darkness imagery — being cast into the pit, reflecting the depth of despair.
Isaiah 50:10 shares the same 'darkness without light' phrase, but there the response is trust in God, unlike the lament here.
Amos 5:18-20 depicts the day of the LORD as darkness, not light, reinforcing the theme of divine judgment bringing darkness.
Deuteronomy 28:28 threatens madness and blindness as divine curse—a parallel to the darkness God brings in Lamentations 3:2.
Job 30:26 describes hoping for light but getting darkness, echoing the reversal from light to darkness in Lamentations.
Isaiah 59:9 speaks of walking in darkness and looking for light that does not come, a similar experience of being in darkness.
Jeremiah 13:16 warns of darkness coming when light is expected, like the darkness God brought in Lamentations.
Isaiah 5:30 depicts darkness and distress as judgment, echoing the darkness without light.