Lamentations 3:6

THE MESSAGE

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 I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God 's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again. ⁴He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin. ⁷He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet. Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered. ¹⁰He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce. He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me. He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice. ¹³He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks. ¹⁶He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." ¹⁹I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

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
The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:2
The Woman said to the serpent, "Not at all. We can eat from the trees in the garden. It's only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘Don't eat from it; don't even touch it or you'll die.'"

Genesis 3:12
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"

Genesis 3:14
God told the serpent: "Because you've done this, you're cursed, cursed beyond all cattle and wild animals, Cursed to slink on your belly and eat dirt all your life. I'm declaring war between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers. He'll wound your head, you'll wound his heel."

Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."

Genesis 39:7
After Joseph had been taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelites, Potiphar an Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and the manager of his household, bought him from them. As it turned out, God was with Joseph and things went very well with him. He ended up living in the home of his Egyptian master. His master recognized that God was with him, saw that God was working for good in everything he did. He became very fond of Joseph and made him his personal aide. He put him in charge of all his personal affairs, turning everything over to him. From that moment on, God blessed the home of the Egyptian—all because of Joseph. The blessing of God spread over everything he owned, at home and in the fields, and all Potiphar had to concern himself with was eating three meals a day. Joseph was a strikingly handsome man. As time went on, his master's wife became infatuated with Joseph and one day said, "Sleep with me."

2 Samuel 11:2
One late afternoon, David got up from taking his nap and was strolling on the roof of the palace. From his vantage point on the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was stunningly beautiful. David sent to ask about her, and was told, "Isn't this Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?" David sent his agents to get her. After she arrived, he went to bed with her. (This occurred during the time of "purification" following her period.) Then she returned home. Before long she realized she was pregnant. Later she sent word to David: "I'm pregnant."

Job 31:1
"I made a solemn pact with myself never to undress a girl with my eyes. So what can I expect from God? What do I deserve from God Almighty above? Isn't calamity reserved for the wicked? Isn't disaster supposed to strike those who do wrong? Isn't God looking, observing how I live? Doesn't he mark every step I take?

Ezekiel 24:25
"And you, son of man: The day I take away the people's refuge, their great joy, the delight of their life, what they've most longed for, along with all their children—on that very day a survivor will arrive and tell you what happened to the city. You'll break your silence and start talking again, talking to the survivor. Again, you'll be an example for them. And they'll recognize that I am God ."

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.”