Lamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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, Ezekiel 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 Psalms 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} Mlwe ytmk wv nekrouv aiwnov, Sept. "quasi mortuos seculi", Montanus, Calvin.