Lamentations 3:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 88:5-6 : 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.
  • Ps 143:3 : 3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails: do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    87%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • Lam 3:7-12
    6 verses
    84%

    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

    8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like 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 set me as a target for the arrow.

  • Lam 3:1-5
    5 verses
    84%

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

    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

    3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

    5He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

  • Ps 88:4-6
    3 verses
    80%

    4I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength:

    5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand.

    6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

  • Job 19:8-9
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    80%

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

    9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 17:13
    78%

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Lam 3:53
    78%

    53They cut off my life in the pit and threw a stone upon me.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Lam 1:13
    77%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 107:10
    76%

    10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

  • Job 30:19
    76%

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

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

    16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 3:16
    75%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

  • 2 Sam 22:6
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    6The sorrows of hell surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me;

  • Job 3:20
    75%

    20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Job 3:5
    75%

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

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 16:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

    12I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

  • Job 17:6
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    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • Job 7:3
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    3So I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • Ps 116:3
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    3The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • Job 29:3
    74%

    3When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Ps 18:5
    74%

    5The sorrows of hell surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.

  • Job 16:7
    74%

    7But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

  • Job 14:13
    74%

    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 33:11
    74%

    11He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

  • Job 3:23
    73%

    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Ps 57:6
    73%

    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Ps 22:15
    73%

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Ps 142:3
    73%

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

  • Ps 31:12
    73%

    12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • Job 19:11
    73%

    11He has also kindled His wrath against me and counts me as one of His enemies.