Lamentations 3:30

New American Bible - revised edition

To offer one’s cheek to be struck, to be filled with disgrace.

Cross References

Job 16:10

They gape at me with their mouths; They strike me on the cheek with insults; they are all enlisted against me.

Job 30:10

They abhor me, they stand aloof, they do not hesitate to spit in my face!

Psalm 123:3

Show us favor, Lord, show us favor, for we have our fill of contempt.

Psalm 69:20

You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace; before you stand all my foes.

Psalm 69:9

I have become an outcast to my kindred, a stranger to my mother’s children.

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who tore out my beard; My face I did not hide from insults and spitting.

Micah 5:1

But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah least among the clans of Judah, From you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel; Whose origin is from of old, from ancient times.

Matthew 26:67

Then they spat in his face and struck him, while some slapped him,

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.

Luke 6:29

To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, or devours you, or gets the better of you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.