Lamentations 3:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

Lamentations 3:29 —

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Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

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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. 29)

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, “…