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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:6 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 3:6 |
Strong Concordance |
He hath set [03427] me in dark places [04285], as they that be dead [04191] of old [05769]. |
| |
King James |
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
set me--HENDERSON refers this to the custom of placing the dead in a sitting posture.
dark places--sepulchers. As those "dead long since"; so Jeremiah and his people are consigned to oblivion (Psa 88:5-6; Psa 143:3; Eze 37:13). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Or, "He hath" made me to dwell "in darkness," i. e. in Sheol or Hades, "as those" forever "dead." |
13 And ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068], when I have opened [06605] your graves [06913], O my people [05971], and brought you up [05927] out of your graves [06913],
3 For the enemy [0341] hath persecuted [07291] my soul [05315]; he hath smitten [01792] my life [02416] down [01792] to the ground [0776]; he hath made me to dwell [03427] in darkness [04285], as those that have been long [05769] dead [04191].
5 Free [02670] among the dead [04191], like the slain [02491] that lie [07901] in the grave [06913], whom thou rememberest [02142] no more: and they are cut off [01504] from thy hand [03027].
6 Thou hast laid [07896] me in the lowest [08482] pit [0953], in darkness [04285], in the deeps [04688].