Lectionary Calendar
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
the Fifth Sunday after Easter
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

King James Version

Lamentations 3:6

He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He has made me dwell in darknesslike those who have been dead for ages.
Hebrew Names Version
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
English Standard Version
he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
New American Standard Bible
He has made me live in dark places, Like those who have long been dead.
New Century Version
He made me sit in the dark, like those who have been dead a long time.
Amplified Bible
He has made me live in dark places Like those who have long been dead.
World English Bible
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.
Legacy Standard Bible
Dark places He has made me inhabit,Like those who have long been dead.
Berean Standard Bible
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
Contemporary English Version
he forced me to sit in the dark like someone long dead.
Complete Jewish Bible
He has made me live in darkness, like those who are long dead.
Darby Translation
He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
Easy-to-Read Version
He put me in the dark, like someone who died long ago.
George Lamsa Translation
He has made me to dwell in darkness, like a dead man for ever.
Good News Translation
He has forced me to live in the stagnant darkness of death.
Lexham English Bible
In darkness he has let me dwell like the dead of long ago.
Literal Translation
He has made me live in dark places like the dead of old.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He hath set me in darcknesse, as they that be deed for euer.
American Standard Version
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Bible in Basic English
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
King James Version (1611)
He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead of old.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.
English Revised Version
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Beth. He settide me in derk places, as euerlastynge deed men.
Update Bible Version
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Webster's Bible Translation
He hath set me in dark places, as [they that are] dead of old.
New English Translation
He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
New King James Version
He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.
New Living Translation
He has buried me in a dark place, like those long dead.
New Life Bible
He has made me live in dark places, like those who have been dead a long time.
New Revised Standard
he has made me sit in darkness like the dead of long ago.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
Revised Standard Version
he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
Young's Literal Translation
In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

Contextual Overview

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. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in dark: Psalms 88:5, Psalms 88:6, Psalms 143:3, Psalms 143:7

Reciprocal: Psalms 107:10 - bound Isaiah 59:10 - in desolate Ezekiel 26:20 - in places

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He hath set me in dark places,.... In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet was put; or the captivity in which the Jews were, and which was like the dark grave or state of the dead; and hence they are said to be in their graves, Ezekiel 37:12. Christ was laid in the dark grave literally:

as [they that be] dead of old: that have been long dead, and are forgotten, as if they had never been; see Psalms 88:5; or, "as the dead of the world" f, or age; who, being dead, are gone out of the world, and no more in it. The Targum is,

"as the dead who go into another world.''

f כמתי עולם ως νεκρους αιωνος, Sept. "quasi mortuos seculi", Montanus, Calvin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, “He hath” made me to dwell “in darkness,” i. e. in Sheol or Hades, “as those” forever “dead.”


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile