King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 3:29
“He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 3
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[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.
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He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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