Lamentations 3:6

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

Lamentations 3:6 in Other Translations

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

6 he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.

6 He has buried me in a dark place, like those long dead.

6 He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin.

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those who have been dead for ages.

Lamentations 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.

Lamentations 3:6 In-Context

4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.

8 Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 88:5-6; Psalms 143:3; Isaiah 59:10