Lamentations 3:30

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 50:6 : 6 I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.
  • Matt 5:39 : 39 But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.
  • Matt 26:67 : 67 Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,
  • Luke 6:29 : 29 To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
  • Ps 123:3 : 3 Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.
  • Mic 5:1 : 1 (4:14) But now slash yourself, daughter surrounded by soldiers! We are besieged! With a scepter they strike Israel’s ruler on the side of his face.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:28-29
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    28י(Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the LORD is disciplining him.

    29Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

  • Isa 50:6-7
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    6I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

    7But the Sovereign LORD helps me, so I am not humiliated. For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; I know I will not be put to shame.

  • Luke 6:29-30
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    29To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

    30Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.

  • Matt 5:38-40
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    38Retaliation“You have heard that it was said,‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

    39But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

    40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your coat also.

  • Job 16:10
    74%

    10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

  • 1 Pet 2:23
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    23When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.

  • Rom 15:3
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    3For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written,“The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

  • Ps 89:41
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    41All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

  • Ps 79:12
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    12Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

  • Luke 22:63-64
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    63Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

    64They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly,“Prophesy! Who hit you?”

  • Luke 18:32
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    32For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on.

  • Matt 27:30
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    30They spat on him and took the staff and struck him repeatedly on the head.

  • Mark 14:65
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    65Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying,“Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat him.

  • Matt 27:44
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    44The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

  • Matt 26:67
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    67Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

  • Ps 69:7
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    7For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

  • Lam 3:31
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    31כ(Kaf) For the Lord will not reject us forever.

  • Ps 44:16
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    16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.

  • Ps 141:5
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    5May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

  • Mark 12:3
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    3But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

  • Isa 53:3
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    3He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

  • Lam 3:15-16
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    15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

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  • Ps 69:20
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    20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

  • Job 27:23
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    23It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

  • John 18:23
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    23Jesus replied,“If I have said something wrong, confirm what is wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why strike me?”

  • 1 Pet 2:19-20
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    19For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

    20For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.

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    34With arrogant scoffers he is scornful, yet he shows favor to the humble.

  • Job 21:31
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    31No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

  • Ps 35:26
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    26May those who rejoice in my troubles be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation!

  • Job 19:3
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    3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

  • Mark 15:19
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    19Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.

  • Prov 13:18
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    18The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.

  • Lam 3:3
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    3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

  • Ps 69:10
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    10I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

  • 1 Pet 3:9
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    9Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.

  • Prov 24:25
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    25But there will be delight for those who convict the guilty, and a pleasing blessing will come on them.

  • 1 Pet 4:14
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    14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.

  • Prov 12:14
    68%

    14A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

  • Exod 21:25
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    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.