Psalms 143:3

He hath made me to dwell in darkness— He maketh me to lie close in dark places. The original word מחשׁכים macheshakkim, properly signifies dark places, and every where means the dark caverns of the earth, where, he complains in this and the preceding clause, his enemies forced him to hide himself, like the dead, who were deep inclosed in the bowels of the earth; a manner of speaking well suited to that state to which David was reduced in the wilderness by his enemies. See Mudge.