John Gill Commentary Lamentations 3:6

"He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead." — Lamentations 3:6 (ASV)

He has set me in dark places
In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet was put; or the captivity in which the Jews were, and which was like the dark grave or state of the dead; and hence they are said to be in their graves, (Ezekiel 37:12) . Christ was laid in the dark grave literally: as [they that be] dead of old :
that have been long dead, and are forgotten, as if they had never been; see (Psalms 88:5) ; or, "as the dead of the world" ^F6 , or age; who, being dead, are gone out of the world, and no more in it. The Targum is, ``as the dead who go into another world.''

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FOOTNOTES:

• F6: (Mlwe ytmk) (wv nekrouv aiwnov) , Sept. "quasi mortuos seculi", Montanus, Calvin.