Even today is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Lamentations 3:28 - Revised Version 1885 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, Because he hath borne it upon him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. Common English Bible He should sit alone and be silent when God lays it on him. Catholic Public Domain Version JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Jod. He shall sit solitary and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. |
Even today is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
I watch, and am become Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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.
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.