John Gill, on Lam 3:6

“Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.”

“He hath set me in dark places,.... In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet was put; or the captivity in which the Jews were, and which was like the dark grave or state of the dead; and hence they are said to be in their graves, Eze 37:12. Christ was laid in the dark grave literally: as they that be dead of old: that have been long dead, and are forgotten, as if they had never been; see Psa 88:5; or, "as the dead of the world" (f), or age; who, being dead, are gone out of the world, and no more in it. The Targum is, "as the dead who go into another world.'' (f) , Sept. "quasi mortuos seculi", Montanus, Calvin.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.