Lamentations 3:6

Lamentations 3:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
• New International Version (NIV)He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
• English Standard Version (ESV)he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
• New King James Version (NKJV)He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.

Context of Lamentations 3:6

4He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones. 5He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead. 7He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy. 8Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:6 word by word

בְּמַחֲשַׁכִּ֥ים הוֹשִׁיבַ֖נִי כְּמֵתֵ֥י עוֹלָֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

• darkמַחְשָׁךְmachshâk · darknessH4285
• He has made me dwellיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• Like those who have longעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: antiquityH5769
• been deadמוּתmûth · to dieH4191

Cross-references for Lamentations 3:6

• Psalms 88:5Forsaken among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand.
• Psalms 143:3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.

Commentaries on Lamentations 3:6

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Or, “He hath” made me to dwell “in darkness,” i. e. in Sheol or Hades, “as those” forever “dead.”Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-9Some interpreters understand these verses as a poetic description of Jeremiah’s time in a muddy cistern (a deep water pit) before the destruction of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 38:6–13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. (Job 16:8).Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 3:6

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Despondency

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Commentaries on Lamentations 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings