Lamentations 3:6
In dark places He has caused me to dwell, || As the dead of old.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
In Context
5He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness.
7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy my chain.
Cross References
Psalms 88:5Among the dead—free, || As pierced ones lying in the grave, || Whom You have not remembered anymore, || Indeed, they have been cut off by Your hand.
Psalms 143:7Hurry, answer me, O YHWH, || My spirit has been consumed, || Do not hide Your face from me, || Or I have been compared with those going down [to] the pit.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →