Lamentations 3:29

WEB

²⁹Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

KJV

²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

BSB

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

FBV

²⁹They should bow low with their faces to the ground, for there may still be hope.

Extra References

Job 40:4

⁴“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Joel 2:14

¹⁴Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the LORD, your God.

Zephaniah 2:3

³Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.

Jeremiah 31:17

¹⁷There is hope for your latter end,” says the LORD. “Your children will come again to their own territory.

Jonah 3:9

⁹Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

Luke 15:18-19

¹⁸I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. ¹⁹I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’

Job 42:5-6

⁵I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. ⁶Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

2 Chronicles 33:12

¹²When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Ezekiel 16:63

⁶³that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord GOD.’”

Luke 18:13

¹³But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’