World English Bible

Lamentations 3:30

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

Verse in context — Lamentations 3

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.

For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.