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The Imagery of Darkness
Commentators explain that the "dark places" are a powerful metaphor for complete separation and despair. This imagery is likened to Sheol (the realm of the dead), a tomb, or a dungeon. It conveys a feeling of being utterly cut off from God, light, and life, as if imprisoned by divine judgment.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:6
18th Century
Theologian
Or, “He has” made me to dwell “in darkness,” i.e. in Sheol or Hades, “as those” forever “dead.”
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:6
19th Century
Bishop
He has set me in dark places. —A verbal reproduction of Psalm 143:3. The “dark places” are those of hell or Hades. The ph…
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:6–7
19th Century
Preacher
He has set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old. He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:6
16th Century
Theologian
Here he amplifies what he had previously said of poison and trouble. He says that he was placed in darkness, not to be there for a little while, bu…
John Gill
On Lamentations 3:6
17th Century
Pastor
He has set me in dark places
In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet w…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:1–20
17th Century
Minister
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…