Lamentations 3:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

to put one’s mouth to the dust (there may yet be hope),

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let him put his mouth in the dust [in abject recognition of his unworthiness]–there may yet be hope. [Mic. 7:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

He should put his mouth in the dirt—perhaps there is hope.

Catholic Public Domain Version

JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Lamentations 3:29 Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:12

While he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.

Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.

Job 40:4

“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Jeremiah 31:17

there is hope for your future, says the Lord: your children shall come back to their own country.

Ezekiel 16:63

in order that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God.

Joel 2:14

Who knows whether he will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the Lord’s wrath.

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Romans 3:19

Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.