Lamentations 3:6

3:6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness

like those who died long ago.

Lamentations 3:55

ק (Qof)

3:55 I have called on your name, O Lord,

from the deepest pit.


tn The plural form of the noun מַחֲשַׁכִּים (makhashakkim, “darknesses”) is an example of the plural of intensity (see IBHS 122 §7.4.3a).

tn Heb “from a pit of lowest places.”