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Thursday, July 10th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Literal Standard Version

Lamentations 3:6

In dark places He has caused me to dwell, || As the 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.
King James Version
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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[ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction || By the rod of His wrath. 2He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light. 3Surely against me He turns back, || He turns His hand all the day. 4He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones. 5He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness. 6In dark places He has caused me to dwell, || As the dead of old.7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy my chain. 8Also when I call and cry out, || He has shut out my prayer. 9He has hedged my ways with hewn work, || My paths He has made crooked. 10A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding 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
And the serpent has been cunning above every beast of the field which YHWH God has made, and he says to the woman, "Is it true that God has said, You do not eat from every tree of the garden?"
Genesis 3:2
And the woman says to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we eat,
Genesis 3:12
And the man says, "The woman whom You placed with me—she has given to me from the tree, and I eat."
Genesis 3:14
And YHWH God says to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed [are] you above all the livestock, and above every beast of the field: on your belly you go, and dust you eat, [for] all days of your life;
Genesis 3:15
and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel."
Genesis 3:17
And to the man He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eat from the tree concerning which I have charged you, saying, You do not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on your account; in sorrow you eat of it [for] all days of your life,
Genesis 3:19
by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return."
Genesis 6:2
and the sons of God see that they, the daughters of men, [are] beautiful, and they take women for themselves of all whom they have chosen.
Genesis 39:7
And it comes to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifts up her eyes to Joseph and says, "Lie with me";
Joshua 7:21
and I see among the spoil a good robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one wedge of gold, whose weight [is] fifty shekels, and I desire them, and take them; and behold, they [are] hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver [is] 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.”


 
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