Lamentations 3:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Let him sit alone uncomplaining and keeping silent [in hope], because [God] has laid [the yoke] upon him [for his benefit]. [Rom. 8:28.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

Common English Bible

²⁸ He should sit alone and be silent when God lays it on him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ Jod. He shall sit solitary and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

Lamentations 3:28 Cross References

Job 23:2

Even today is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Psalm 102:7

I watch, and am become Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

Psalm 39:10

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

Psalm 39:9

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

Jeremiah 15:17

I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, 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, they 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.

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.