Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:6

6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old .

The Prophet compareth their state in Babylon to the state of bodies in the Graves, or in some Charnel house, which are places of darkness, full of rottenness and dead mens bones. Such was the state of the Iews in Ierusalem during the time of the siege before the City was taken, when Ierusalem was a most miserable place by reason of the multitudes slain by the Enemy, or by the Famine: such was their estate in Babylon, where the company of Heathens made their state, as the state of the living amongst the dead.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span]. 5, 6.