Holy Scripture
Lamentations 3:6
A church father on this verse
“Third, the imprisonment of those persons captured is considered. "He has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago." And Psalm 143:3 says: "he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead." Thus, these ideas can be referred to the prophet Jeremiah himself. Since, he himself has been confined by many obst…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6He has set me in dark places, As them that have long been dead.
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In context
4He has made old my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.
5He has built against me, and compassed my head, And brought travail upon me.
— Lamentations 3:6 —
7He has built against me, and I cannot come forth: He has made my brazen chain heavy.
8Yea, though I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.