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Lamentations 3:6

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

KJV

In tenebrosis collocavit me, quasi mortuos sempiternos.

Vulgate

ἐν σκοτινοῖς ἐκάθισέν με ὡς νεκροὺς αἰῶνος,

LXX

He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

ASV

בְּ/מַחֲשַׁכִּ֥ים הוֹשִׁיבַ֖/נִי כְּ/מֵתֵ֥י עוֹלָֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

4 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים
mchshkym
noun · 6×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 59:10 — We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
  • Ps 88:5 — Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
  • Ps 107:10 — Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
  • Ps 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
  • Ps 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.