World English Bible

Lamentations 3:29

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

Verse in context — Lamentations 3

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

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

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

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

For the Lord will not cast off forever.

Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.