Lamentations 3:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ He hath set me in dark places, As they that be dead of old.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ He has caused me to dwell in dark places like those long dead.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Common English Bible

⁶ He made me live in dark places like those who’ve been dead a long time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ 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; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

Psalm 143:7

Make haste to answer me, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the Pit.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.