Lamentations 3:6
He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 88:5-6 : 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power. 6 You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.
- Ps 143:3 : 3 Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
- Ps 143:7 : 7 Answer me quickly, LORD! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.
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- Ps 143:3-42 verses87%
3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
- Lam 3:7-126 verses84%
7ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
8Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
10ד(Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.
11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.
- Lam 3:1-55 verses84%
1א(Alef) The Prophet Speaks: I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.
2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.
4ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
- Ps 88:4-63 verses80%
4They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
5adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
6You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.
- Job 19:8-92 verses80%
8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.
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13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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53They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.
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10They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,
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19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses75%
15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
16ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
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16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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6The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.
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20Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
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5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
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17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
- Job 16:11-122 verses75%
11God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
12I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
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6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
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3thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
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3The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.
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3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
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6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
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5The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.
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7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
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13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
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11He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’
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23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
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6They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it!(Selah)
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15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
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3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
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12I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
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11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.