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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 30 He gives his cheek to the one who strikes him; he is filled with reproach.

  • 28 He sits alone and keeps silent, because He has laid it on him.

  • 16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

  • 9 Behold, the hope of capturing him is vain; will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 32 If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.

  • 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

  • 15 I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

  • 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

  • 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.

  • 15 And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 29 When they cast down, then you shall say, 'There is lifting up;' and He shall save the humble person.

  • 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

  • 26 He shall pray to God, and He will be favorable to him, and he shall see His face with joy, for He will render unto man His righteousness.

  • Job 13:13-15
    3 verses
    70%

    13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let happen to me what will.

    14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

    15 Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him; but I will defend my own ways before him.

  • 5 Oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

  • 3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

  • 29 When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him? Whether it be done against a nation or against a man only.

  • 20 Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • 13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

  • 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • 3 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak soft words to you?

  • 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and console myself:

  • 24 Trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.

  • 21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

  • 3 If one wishes to contend with Him, he cannot answer Him one in a thousand.

  • 14 Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no responses.

  • Job 33:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18 He keeps 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 the multitude of his bones with strong pain;

  • 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

  • 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly clings to the earth.

  • 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we do not perish?

  • Job 6:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

    10 Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • 10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

  • 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall go away.

  • 31 Who will declare his way to his face? And who will repay him for what he has done?

  • 3 Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

  • Job 27:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22 For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.

    23 Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place.

  • 19 If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty: and if of judgment, who shall set a time for me to plead?

  • 39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  • 31 Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.