Lamentations 3:6 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:6

He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

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ASV

He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

WEB

He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

YLT

In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

DBT

He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Psalms 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Psalms 88:5–6
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalms 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Psalms 143:7
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

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Ezekiel 26:20

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), He has set me in dark places, dark as the grave, like those that are dead of old, that are quite forgotten, nobody knows who or what they were. Note, The Israel of God, though children of light, sometimes walk in darkness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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