Ekhah 3:6

6 He hath set me in dark places, like the mesei olam (long dead).

Ekhah 3:6 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:6

He hath set me in dark places
In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet was put; or the captivity in which the Jews were, and which was like the dark grave or state of the dead; and hence they are said to be in their graves, ( Ezekiel 37:12 ) . Christ was laid in the dark grave literally: as [they that be] dead of old:
that have been long dead, and are forgotten, as if they had never been; see ( Psalms 88:5 ) ; or, "as the dead of the world" ^F6, or age; who, being dead, are gone out of the world, and no more in it. The Targum is,

``as the dead who go into another world.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (Mlwe ytmk) (wv nekrouv aiwnov) , Sept. "quasi mortuos seculi", Montanus, Calvin.

Ekhah 3:6 In-Context

4 My basar and my ohr (skin) hath He made old; He hath broken my atzmot.

5 He hath set up seigeworks against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 He hath set me in dark places, like the mesei olam (long dead).

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot escape; He hath made my chain heavy.

8 Also when I cry and call out, He shutteth out my tefillah.