Lamentations 3:6

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He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 88:5-6 : 5 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength. 6 Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.
  • Ps 143:3 : 3 For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Answer me quickly, Lord, for my spirit is fading. Do not hide your face from me, or I will be like those who go down to the pit.

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  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    87%

    3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • Lam 3:7-12
    6 verses
    84%

    7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.

    8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

    9He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    10He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

    12He has bent His bow and made me the target for His arrows.

  • Lam 3:1-5
    5 verses
    84%

    1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

    2He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

    3Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

    4He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

    5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

  • Ps 88:4-6
    3 verses
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    4For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

    5I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength.

    6Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.

  • Job 19:8-9
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    80%

    8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

    9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

  • Job 17:13
    78%

    13If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,

  • Lam 3:53
    78%

    53They threw me alive into a pit and cast a stone upon me.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    77%

    21Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

    22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Lam 1:13
    77%

    13From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

  • Ps 107:10
    76%

    10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains.

  • Job 30:19
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    19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • Lam 3:15-17
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    15He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.

    16He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Job 3:16
    75%

    16Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • 2 Sam 22:6
    75%

    6The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?

  • Job 3:5
    75%

    5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Job 16:11-12
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    11God has handed me over to the unjust and thrown me into the hands of the wicked.

    12I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target.

  • Job 17:6
    75%

    6He has made me a byword among the peoples, and I have become one at whom they spit.

  • Job 7:3
    75%

    3so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

  • Ps 116:3
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    3The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of Sheol came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.

  • Job 29:3
    74%

    3when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • Ps 18:5
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    5The cords of death surrounded me, and the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

  • Job 16:7
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    7Surely now, God has worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

  • Job 14:13
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    13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 33:11
    74%

    11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.

  • Job 3:23
    73%

    23To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Ps 57:6
    73%

    6Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.

  • Ps 22:15
    73%

    15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me.

  • Ps 142:3
    73%

    3I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my troubles to Him.

  • Ps 31:12
    73%

    12I am a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more to my neighbors—a dread to my acquaintances; those who see me on the street flee from me.

  • Job 19:11
    73%

    11His anger burns against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.