Besieged in darkness; Jeremiah as type of Christ

For he did not let me flee the terrible things, being besieged from everywhere. And perhaps he would also mean the enemy wall thrown around the city. And he has uttered the same voice as David who said: “they seated me in dark places as eternal dead”—this both through the prisons from the enemies and at once through the calamities from God; for trials are darkness of a soul. And specifically Pashhur also threw Jeremiah into the pit, being dark and without light—such as was also David’s cave in which he was hidden from Saul. And the two Laments could also be taken unto Christ, of whom Jeremiah was a type, having suffered so many things from Jews and at the end having been handed over to a tomb.