Lamentations 3:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

He puts his mouth in the dust, there may yet be hope.

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  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
  • Job 42:5-6 : 5 I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
  • Jer 31:17 : 17 And there is hope in your future, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.
  • Joel 2:14 : 14 Who knows if he will turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God?
  • Jonah 3:9 : 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we do not perish?
  • Zeph 2:3 : 3 Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have carried out His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hidden in the day of the LORD'S anger.
  • Luke 15:18-19 : 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 And am no longer worthy to be called your son: make me like one of your hired servants.
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
  • 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

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