Lamentations 3:28

American Standard Version (1901)

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 15:17 : 17 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.
  • Lam 2:10 : 10 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.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.
  • Ps 102:7 : 7 I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:26-27
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    26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.

    27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

  • Lam 3:29-30
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    79%

    29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

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

  • 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.

  • 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

  • 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

  • 29 When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether [it be done] unto a nation, or unto a man:

  • 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

  • 19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

  • 22 But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

  • 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

  • 23 For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

  • 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

  • 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

  • Job 33:18-19
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    18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.

    19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;

  • 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 7 They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • 20 But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

  • 5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

  • Lam 3:6-7
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    6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

  • 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;

  • 31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will speak.

  • 28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; When he shutteth his lips, he is [esteemed as] prudent.

  • 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

  • 17 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.

  • 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

  • 21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

  • 14 For he performeth that which is appointed for me: And many such things are with him.

  • 32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, [Lay] thy hand upon thy mouth.

  • 17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

  • 13 Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

  • 28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

  • 14 Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.

  • 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

  • 13 Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

  • 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

  • 33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

  • 2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

  • 2 He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

  • 11 He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.

  • 13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 10 And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  • 7 But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.