Lamentations 3:30

WEB

³⁰Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

KJV

³⁰He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

BSB

³⁰Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

FBV

³⁰They should turn a cheek to someone who wants to slap them; they should take the insults of others.

Extra References

Isaiah 50:6

⁶I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

Job 16:10

¹⁰They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Matthew 26:67

⁶⁷Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

Matthew 5:39

³⁹But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

2 Corinthians 11:20

²⁰For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

Psalms 69:20

²⁰Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Micah 5:1

¹Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

Luke 6:29

²⁹To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

Psalms 123:3

³Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

Psalms 69:9

⁹For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.