Lamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 88:5-6 : 5 Free 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 darkness, 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 darkness, as those that have been long dead.
- Ps 143:7 : 7 ¶ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
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- Ps 143:3-42 verses87%
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Lam 3:7-126 verses84%
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Lam 3:1-55 verses84%
1 ¶ I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.
- Ps 88:4-63 verses80%
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
5 Free 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 darkness, in the deeps.
- Job 19:8-92 verses80%
8 ¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.
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13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21 Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
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13 From above 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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10 ¶ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;
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19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses75%
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
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6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
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20 ¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
- Job 16:11-122 verses75%
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
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6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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3 When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;
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6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
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7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, 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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11 He 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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6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.
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15 My 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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3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
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12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies.