“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…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
— Lamentations 3:6 —
7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.