Lamentations 3:30
Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
In Context
29He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.
31For the Lord will not forsake for euer.
Cross References
Job 30:10They abhorre me, and flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.
Psalms 69:20Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.
Isaiah 50:6I gaue my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I hidde not my face from shame and spitting.
Matthew 5:39But I say vnto you, Resist not euill: but whosoeuer shall smite thee on thy right cheeke, turne to him the other also.
Luke 6:29And vnto him that smiteth thee on ye one cheeke, offer also the other: and him that taketh away thy cloke, forbid not to take thy coate also.
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 →