Lamentations 3:28
He sits alone, and is silent, || For He has laid [it] on him.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
In Context
27[It is] good for a man that he bears a yoke in his youth.
29He puts his mouth in the dust, if so be, there is hope.
Cross References
Job 23:2“Also—today my complaint [is] bitter, || My hand has been heavy because of my sighing.
Psalms 39:10Turn aside Your stroke from off me, || From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.
Jeremiah 15:17I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, || Nor do I exult, because of your hand—I have sat alone, || For You have filled me [with] indignation.
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 →