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Lamentations 3:29

Lamentations chapter 3 · verse 29 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

v.29This passage

v.30Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

Cross references

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

  • Job 42:5

    I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:

  • Jonah 3:9

    Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

  • 2 Chronicles 33:12

    And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

  • Zephaniah 2:3

    Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger.

  • Luke 18:13

    But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.

  • Ezekiel 16:63

    that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.