Lamentations 3:30
Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
In Context
29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
31For LORD will not cast off forever.
Cross References
Job 30:10They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
Psalms 69:20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
Matthew 5:39But I say to you, not to resist what is troublesome, but whoever will strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Luke 6:29To him who strikes thee on the cheek offer the other also, and from him who takes away thy cloak, also do not withhold thy coat.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:22-37
Words of Comfort to Israel; The Benefit of Afflictions; Comfort to the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22 It is of the Lord 's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the… Read the whole commentary →