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%
3The 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.
4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
- Lam 3:7-126 verses84%
7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
8Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
9He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
12With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
- Lam 3:1-55 verses84%
1I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
5He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
- Ps 88:4-63 verses80%
4I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
5My 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.
6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
- Job 19:8-92 verses80%
8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
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13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
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53They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
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13From 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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10Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
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19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses75%
15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
16By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
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16Or 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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6The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
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5Let 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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17For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
- Job 16:11-122 verses75%
11God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
12I 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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6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
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3So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
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3The 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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3When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
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6The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
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5The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
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13If 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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11He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
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23To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
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6They 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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15My 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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3When 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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12I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
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11His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.