Lamentations 3:6
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 88:5-6 : 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
- Ps 143:3 : 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
- Ps 143:7 : 7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
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- Ps 143:3-42 verses87%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
- Lam 3:7-126 verses84%
7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Lam 3:1-55 verses84%
1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- Ps 88:4-63 verses80%
4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
5Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.
6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
- Job 19:8-92 verses80%
8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
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13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
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53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
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13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
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10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
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19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses75%
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
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16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
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6The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
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20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
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5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
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17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
- Job 16:11-122 verses75%
11God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
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6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
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3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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3The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
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6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
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5The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
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7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
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13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
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23[ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
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6They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. {{Selah
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15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
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3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.
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12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.