Catholic Public Domain Version
"BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead. "
— Lamentations 3:6, Catholic Public Domain Version
“He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.”
“He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. ”
“He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.”
“He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.”
“Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.”
“He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.”
“He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.”
ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.