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Lamentations 3:6

He has made me live in dark places Like those who have long been dead.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He has made me dwell in darknesslike those who have been dead for ages.
Hebrew Names Version
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
King James Version
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
English Standard Version
he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
New American Standard Bible
He has made me live in dark places, Like those who have long been dead.
New Century Version
He made me sit in the dark, like those who have been dead a long time.
World English Bible
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.
Legacy Standard Bible
Dark places He has made me inhabit,Like those who have long been dead.
Berean Standard Bible
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
Contemporary English Version
he forced me to sit in the dark like someone long dead.
Complete Jewish Bible
He has made me live in darkness, like those who are long dead.
Darby Translation
He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
Easy-to-Read Version
He put me in the dark, like someone who died long ago.
George Lamsa Translation
He has made me to dwell in darkness, like a dead man for ever.
Good News Translation
He has forced me to live in the stagnant darkness of death.
Lexham English Bible
In darkness he has let me dwell like the dead of long ago.
Literal Translation
He has made me live in dark places like the dead of old.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He hath set me in darcknesse, as they that be deed for euer.
American Standard Version
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Bible in Basic English
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
King James Version (1611)
He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead of old.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.
English Revised Version
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Beth. He settide me in derk places, as euerlastynge deed men.
Update Bible Version
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Webster's Bible Translation
He hath set me in dark places, as [they that are] dead of old.
New English Translation
He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
New King James Version
He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.
New Living Translation
He has buried me in a dark place, like those long dead.
New Life Bible
He has made me live in dark places, like those who have been dead a long time.
New Revised Standard
he has made me sit in darkness like the dead of long ago.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
Revised Standard Version
he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
Young's Literal Translation
In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

Contextual Overview

1I am [Jeremiah] the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath. 2He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. 3Surely He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day. 4He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has shattered my bones. 5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He has made me live in dark places Like those who have long been dead.7He walled me in so that I cannot get out; He has weighted down my chain. 8Even when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. 10He is to me like a bear lying in wait, And like a lion [hiding] in secret places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in dark: Psalms 88:5, Psalms 88:6, Psalms 143:3, Psalms 143:7

Reciprocal: Psalms 107:10 - bound Isaiah 59:10 - in desolate Ezekiel 26:20 - in places

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel."
Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam the LORD God said, "Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it'; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it All the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
"By the sweat of your face You will eat bread Until you return to the ground, For from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.
Genesis 39:7
Then after a time his master's wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, "Lie with me."
Joshua 7:21
when I saw among the spoils [in Jericho] a beautiful robe from Shinar (southern Babylon) and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I wanted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" f, 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.''

f כמתי עולם ως νεκρους αιωνος, Sept. "quasi mortuos seculi", Montanus, Calvin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, “He hath” made me to dwell “in darkness,” i. e. in Sheol or Hades, “as those” forever “dead.”


 
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