Lamentations 3:29
New International Version
Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.

New Living Translation
Let them lie face down in the dust, for there may be hope at last.

English Standard Version
let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;

Berean Standard Bible
Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

King James Bible
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

New King James Version
Let him put his mouth in the dust— There may yet be hope.

New American Standard Bible
Let him put his mouth in the dust; Perhaps there is hope.

NASB 1995
Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.

NASB 1977
Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let him put his mouth in the dust; Perhaps there is hope.

Amplified Bible
Let him put his mouth in the dust [in recognition of his unworthiness]; There may yet be hope.

Christian Standard Bible
Let him put his mouth in the dust — perhaps there is still hope.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let him put his mouth in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He will put his mouth into the dust, because there is hope

Contemporary English Version
Being rubbed in the dirt can teach us a lesson;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

English Revised Version
Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may he hope.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They should put their mouths in the dust. Maybe a reason to hope exists.

Good News Translation
We should bow in submission, for there may still be hope.

International Standard Version
Let him fall face down in the dust, so there may yet be hope.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Let him put his mouth in the dust, If so be there may be hope.

Literal Standard Version
He puts his mouth in the dust, if so be, there is hope.

Majority Standard Bible
Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

New American Bible
To put one’s mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope—

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

New Revised Standard Version
to put one’s mouth to the dust (there may yet be hope),

New Heart English Bible
Let him put his mouth to the dust, there may yet be hope.

Webster's Bible Translation
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.

World English Bible
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

Young's Literal Translation
He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.

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Context
Jeremiah's Hope
28Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him. 29Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope. 30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.…

Cross References
Job 16:15
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

Job 40:4
"Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

Jeremiah 31:17
So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.


Treasury of Scripture

He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

putteth

2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Job 42:5,6
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee…

if

Joel 2:14
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

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1. The prophet bewails his own calamities
22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37. He acknowledges God's justice
55. He prays for deliverance
64. And vengeance on his enemies














(29) He putteth his mouth in the dust . . .--The outward image is that of the prostration of an Eastern subject before a king: his very face laid in the dust, so that he cannot speak.

Verse 29. - He putteth his mouth, etc. An Oriental manner of expressing submission (comp. Micah 7:17; Psalm 72:9).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Let him bury
יִתֵּ֤ן (yit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

his face
פִּ֔יהוּ (pî·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

in the dust—
בֶּֽעָפָר֙ (be·‘ā·p̄ār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

perhaps
אוּלַ֖י (’ū·lay)
Adverb
Strong's 194: Perhaps

there is
יֵ֥שׁ (yêš)
Adverb
Strong's 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

still hope.
תִּקְוָֽה׃ (tiq·wāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8615: A cord, expectancy


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