John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 6. He hath set me in dark places , etc.] 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 Psalm 88:5); or, “as the dead of the world” f54 , 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.”
Matthew Henry Commentary
- The miserable state of Jerusalem, the just consequences of its sins (Lam. 1:1-11) Jerusalem represented as a captive female, lamenting, an seeking the mercy of God. (Lam. 1:12-22)
Lam. 1:1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at othe times Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation Jerusalem became a captive and a slave
, by reason of the greatness of her 
