Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever.
New American Standard Bible
Like those who have long been dead.
King James Version
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Holman Bible
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.
A Conservative Version
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.
American Standard Version
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Amplified
He has made me live in dark places
Like those who have long been dead.
Bible in Basic English
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
Darby Translation
He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
Julia Smith Translation
He caused me to dwell in darknesses as the dead of old.
King James 2000
He has set me in dark places, like they that are long dead.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In darkness he has let me dwell like [the] dead of long ago.
Modern King James verseion
He has made me live in dark places, like the dead of old.
NET Bible
He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
New Heart English Bible
He has made me to dwell in dark places, like those that have been long dead.
The Emphasized Bible
In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.
Webster
He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.
World English Bible
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Youngs Literal Translation
In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
5 He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever. 7 {Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.
Cross References
Psalm 88:5-6
free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.
Psalm 143:3
For the enemy persecuteth my soul; he smiteth my life down to the ground; he layeth me in the darkness, as the dead men of the world.
Psalm 143:7
Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.