Lamentations 3:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

He hath set me in dark places. — A verbal reproduction of Psalms 143:3. The “dark places” are those of hell or Hades. For dead of old read dead eternally or dead for ever, the adverb looking forward rather than back.

Lamentations 3:6

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