You have thrown me into the lowest pit, into the darkest depths.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
- KJV Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- BSB You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
- NKJV You have laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the depths.
- NASB You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.
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Quick answer
He says God has laid him in the lowest pit and darkest depths. He attributes his suffering to God's hand.
Overview
Heman boldly traces his affliction to God Himself, placing him in deepest darkness. Rather than denying God's sovereignty, he wrestles with it honestly. This descent into darkness anticipates the depths Christ endured, plunged into suffering and the darkness of the cross for our sake.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 69:15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
- Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
- Lam 3:2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
- Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
- Ps 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
- Deut 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
- Prov 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
- Ps 130:1A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
- Lam 3:55I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
- Jude 1:6Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
- Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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