KJV King James Version
He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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Lamentations 3:30
He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
WEB World English Bible
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
ASV American Standard Version
Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 3
27 [It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30 He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
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Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.Job 16:10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.Matthew 5:39But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.Matthew 26:67Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote [him] with the palms of their hands,2 Corinthians 11:20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.Psalm 123:3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.Luke 6:29And unto him that smiteth thee on the [one] cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not [to take thy] coat also.Psalm 69:20Reproach hath 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.Micah 5:1Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.Psalm 69:9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
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