Lamentations 3:6
Strong's Lexicon
He has made me dwell
הוֹשִׁיבַ֖נִי (hō·wō·šî·ḇa·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3427: 1) to dwell, remain, sit, abide 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sit, sit down 1a2) to be set 1a3) to remain, stay 1a4) to dwell, have one's abode 1b) (Niphal) to be inhabited 1c) (Piel) to set, place 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cause to sit 1d2) to cause to abide, set 1d3) to cause to dwell 1d4) to cause (cities) to be inhabited 1d5) to marry (give an dwelling to) 1e) (Hophal) 1e1) to be inhabited 1e2) to make to dwell

in darkness
בְּמַחֲשַׁכִּ֥ים (bə·ma·ḥă·šak·kîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4285: 1) dark place, darkness, secrecy 1a) hiding-place 1b) dark region 1c) grave

like those dead
כְּמֵתֵ֥י (kə·mê·ṯê)
Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4191: 1) to die, kill, have one executed 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to die 1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death 1a3) to die, perish (of a nation) 1a4) to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct) 1b) (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch 1c) (Hiphil) to kill, put to death 1d) (Hophal) 1d1) to be killed, be put to death 1d1a) to die prematurely

for ages.
עוֹלָֽם׃ (‘ō·w·lām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5769: 1) long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world 1a) ancient time, long time (of past) 1b) (of future) 1b1) for ever, always 1b2) continuous existence, perpetual 1b3) everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

Young's Literal Translation
In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He has made me dwell in darkness like those who have been dead for ages.

New American Standard Bible
In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.

King James Bible
He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

New Living Translation
He has buried me in a dark place, like those long dead.

English Standard Version
he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.

New American Standard Bible
In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.

King James Bible
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He has made me dwell in darkness like those who have been dead for ages.

International Standard Version
He has forced me to live in darkness, like those who are long dead.

NET Bible
He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

American Standard Version
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

English Revised Version
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Young's Literal Translation
In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.
















Cross References
Psalm 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.

Psalm 88:6
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Psalm 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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