Lamentations 3:6 Meaning and Explanation
“He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Lamentations 3:6 Mean?
The sufferer feels consigned to 'dark places,' the gloom of the grave. He compares himself to 'they that be dead of old' — not the recently mourned, but the long-dead, those whose names no one remembers and whose graves no one visits. It is the loneliness of being utterly forgotten.
This is among the lowest points of the descent that opens the chapter. The man feels as good as dead and as forgotten as the ancient dead. Yet Scripture often speaks of God as the one who remembers the forgotten and brings up the soul from the depths. The very depth of this darkness sets the stage for the light that is coming, for it is from precisely such places that God is known to rescue.
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What does Lamentations 3:6 mean?
He feels buried in darkness, like those long dead and forgotten.