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Lamentations 3:28

Lamentations chapter 3 · verse 28 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

Context

v.27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

v.28This passage

v.29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 39:9

    I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

  • Jeremiah 15:17

    I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.

  • Lamentations 2:10

    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

  • Psalms 102:7

    I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.