Lamentations 3:6
hHe hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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Lamentations 3:2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Lamentations 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Psalms 88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms 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.
Psalms 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
The prophet compareth their state in Babylon to the state of bodies in the graves, or in some charnel-house, which are places of darkness, full of rottenness and dead men’s bones. Such was the state of the Jews in Jerusalem during the time of the siege before the city was taken, when Jerusalem was a most miserable place by reason of the multitudes slain by the enemy, or by the famine: such was their state in Babylon, where the company of heathens made their state as the state of the living amongst the dead.