Lamentations 3:29 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ 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)

²⁹ Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Common English Bible

²⁹ He should put his mouth in the dirt—perhaps there is hope.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ 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 affliction, 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 defiled my horn in the dust.

Job 40:4

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Jeremiah 31:17

And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that 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 am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

Joel 2:14

Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?

Jonah 3:9

Who can tell if God will 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 judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.

Luke 18:13

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

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.