Lamentations 3:6
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 88:5-6 : 5 Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths.
- Ps 143:3 : 3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
- Ps 143:7 : 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
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- Ps 143:3-42 verses87%
3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
- Lam 3:7-126 verses84%
7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Lam 3:1-55 verses84%
1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- Ps 88:4-63 verses80%
4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
5 Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths.
- Job 19:8-92 verses80%
8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
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13 If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21 Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
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13 From on high has he 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.
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10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
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19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
- Lam 3:15-173 verses75%
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
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16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.
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6 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
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20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,
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5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
- Job 16:11-122 verses75%
11 God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
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6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
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3 So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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3 The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
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3 When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
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6 The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
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5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
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7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
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13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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11 He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
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6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the midst of it themselves. Selah.
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15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
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3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.
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12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
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11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.