6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
6 he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
6 He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin.
6 He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.
6 He has buried me in a dark place, like those long dead.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Lamentations 3:6
Commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20
(Read Lamentations 3:1-20)
The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.