Lamentations 3:29

English Standard Version 2016

let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;

Cross References

Job 40:4

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

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 stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Luke 18:13

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

Zephaniah 2:3

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

Jonah 3:9

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

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?

Ezekiel 16:63

that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”

Jeremiah 31:17

There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.

2 Chronicles 33:12

And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of 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 strength in the dust.