Lamentations 3:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁰ Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: He is filled full with reproach.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ Let him give his cheek to the One Who smites him [even through His human agents]; let him be filled [full] with [men's] reproach [in meekness].

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

Common English Bible

³⁰ He should offer his cheek for a blow; he should be filled with shame.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him he shall be filled with reproaches.

Lamentations 3:30 Cross References

Job 16:10

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

Job 30:10

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.

Psalm 123:3

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 69:9

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Micah 5:1

Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

Matthew 26:67

Then did they spit in his face and buffet him: and some smote him with the palms of their hands,

Matthew 5:39

but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Luke 6:29

To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and from him that taketh away thy cloke withhold not thy coat also.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.