Lamentations 3:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

he has made me sit in darkness like the dead of long ago.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He has caused me to dwell in dark places like those long dead.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

He made me live in dark places like those who’ve been dead a long time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Beth. He hath set me in dark places, as those that are dead for ever.

Lamentations 3:6 Cross References

Psalm 143:3

For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground, making me sit in darkness like those long dead.

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope like the blind along a wall, groping like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the vigorous as though we were dead.