set me. made me to dwell.
as they, &c.. like the age-long dead.
Or, “He hath” made me to dwell “in darkness,” i. e. in Sheol or Hades, “as those” forever “dead.”
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He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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Psalms 143:3 ; Psalms 143:7 ; Psalms 88:5 ; Psalms 88:6
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.