Lamentations 3:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 88:5-6 : 5 Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off. 6 Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.
  • Ps 143:3 : 3 For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down `to' the pit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    87%

    3 For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

    4 And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

  • Lam 3:7-12
    6 verses
    84%

    7 He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

    8 Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

    9 He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

    10 A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

    11 My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

    12 He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

  • Lam 3:1-5
    5 verses
    84%

    1 I `am' the man `who' hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

    2 Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

    3 Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

    4 He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

    5 He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

  • Ps 88:4-6
    3 verses
    80%

    4 I have been reckoned with those going down `to' the pit, I have been as a man without strength.

    5 Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

    6 Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    80%

    8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

    9 Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

  • 13 If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

  • 53 They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

    22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

  • 13 From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

  • 10 Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

  • 19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Lam 3:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15 He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood.

    16 And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

    17 And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

  • 16 (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

  • 6 The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.

  • 20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

  • 5 Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

  • 17 For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

  • Job 16:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

    12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

  • 6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

  • 3 So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

  • 3 Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

  • 3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.

  • 6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

  • 5 Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

  • 7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

  • 13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

  • 11 He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'

  • 23 To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

  • 6 A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

  • 15 Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

  • 3 When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way `in' which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

  • 12 I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

  • 11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.