makh-shawk'
from 2821; darkness; concretely, a dark place:--dark(-ness,
place).
see Hebrew for [02821]
Have respect [05027] unto the covenant [01285]: for the dark [04285] places of the earth [0776] are full [04390] of the habitations [04999] of cruelty [02555].
Thou hast laid [07896] me in the lowest [08482] pit [0953], in darkness [04285], in the deeps [04688].
Lover [0157] and friend [07453] hast thou put far [07368] from me, and mine acquaintance [03045] into darkness [04285].
For the enemy [0341] hath persecuted [07291] my soul [05315]; he hath smitten [01792] my life [02416] down [01792] to the ground [0776]; he hath made me to dwell [03427] in darkness [04285], as those that have been long [05769] dead [04191].
Woe [01945] unto them that seek deep [06009] to hide [05641] their counsel [06098] from the Lord [03068], and their works [04639] are in the dark [04285], and they say [0559], Who seeth [07200] us? and who knoweth [03045] us?
And I will bring [03212] the blind [05787] by a way [01870] that they knew [03045] not; I will lead [01869] them in paths [05410] that they have not known [03045]: I will make [07760] darkness [04285] light [0216] before [06440] them, and crooked things [04625] straight [04334]. These things [01697] will I do [06213] unto them, and not forsake [05800] them.straight: Heb. into straightness
He hath set [03427] me in dark places [04285], as they that be dead [04191] of old [05769].