Lamentations 3:6
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 88:5-6 : 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
- Ps 143:3 : 3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
- Ps 143:7 : 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
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- Ps 143:3-42 verses87%
3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
- Lam 3:7-126 verses84%
7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
- Lam 3:1-55 verses84%
1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
- Ps 88:4-63 verses80%
4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
- Job 19:8-92 verses80%
8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
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13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
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53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
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13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
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10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
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19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses75%
15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
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16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
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5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
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17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
- Job 16:11-122 verses75%
11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
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6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
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3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
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3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
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3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
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6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
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5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
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13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
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11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
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23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
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6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
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15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
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3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
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12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
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11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.