Lamentations 3:29

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.
  • Job 42:5-6 : 5 I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee: 6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.
  • Jer 31:17 : 17 And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and [thy] children shall come again to their own border.
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
  • Joel 2:14 : 14 Who knoweth whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering unto Jehovah your God?
  • Jonah 3:9 : 9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
  • Zeph 2:3 : 3 Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.
  • Luke 15:18-19 : 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
  • 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

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