Lamentations 3:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may he 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

And when he was in distress, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

Job 40:4

Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Jeremiah 31:17

And there is hope for thy latter end, saith the LORD; and thy children shall come again to their own border.

Ezekiel 16:63

that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame; when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

Joel 2:14

Who knoweth whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Jonah 3:9

Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgement; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

Luke 18:13

But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me a sinner.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgement of God: