Lamentations 3:30

The Scriptures 1998

Let him give his cheek To the one who smites him – He is filled with reproach.

Cross References

Job 16:10

They open wide their mouths at me, in scorn they have smitten my cheeks, they mass themselves together against me.

Job 30:10

They have loathed me, they have kept far from me, and did not refrain from spitting in my face.

Psalm 123:3

Show favour to us, O יהוה, show favour to us! For we are exceedingly filled with mockery.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 69:9

Because ardour for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

Isaiah 50:6

I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard, I did not hide My face from humiliation and spitting.

Micah 5:1

Now you are raided, O daughter of raiders, a siege has been laid against us. They strike the Judge of Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 26:67

Then they spat in His face and beat Him, and others slapped Him,

Matthew 5:39

but I say to you, do not resist the wicked. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

Luke 6:29

“And to him who hits you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your outer garment, do not withhold the inner garment either.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if one hits you in the face.