Lamentations 3:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Lamentations 3:28 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 15:17
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, 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, and 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 as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Psalms 39:9
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-36)

Here the clouds begin to disperse and the sky to clear up; the complaint was very melancholy in the former part of the chapter, and yet here the tune is altered and the mourners in Zion begin to look a little pleasant. But for hope, the heart would break. To save the heart from being quite broken, here is something called to mind, which gives ground for hope (Lam. 3:21), which refers to what comes…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28-30. The fruit of true docility and patience. He does not fight against the yoke (Jr 31:18; Ac 9:5), but accommodates himself to it. alone--The heathen applauded magnanimity, but they looked to display and the praise of men. The child of God, in the absence of any witness, “alone,” silently submits to the will of God. borne it upon him--that is, because he is used to bearing it on him. Rather, “…