For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Of old. Literally, "of an age "(Haydock) who are quite forgotten, Lamentations iii. 6. (Calmet)
The devil had violently tempted me, by means of temporal and spiritual calamities. (Worthington)
The greatest darkness is that of the heart, Ephesians iv. 17. (Haydock)