Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
New American Standard Bible
Perhaps there is
King James Version
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Holman Bible
perhaps there is still hope.
International Standard Version
Let him fall face down in the dust, so there may yet be hope.
American Standard Version
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
Amplified
Let him put his mouth in the dust [in recognition of his unworthiness];
There may yet be hope.
Bible in Basic English
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
Darby Translation
he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;
Julia Smith Translation
He will give his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is hope.
King James 2000
He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let {him put} his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.
Modern King James verseion
He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there may be hope.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He layeth his face upon the earth, if, percase, there happen to be any hope.
NET Bible
Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.
New Heart English Bible
Let him put his mouth to the dust, there may yet be hope.
The Emphasized Bible
Let him put, in the dust, his mouth, peradventure, there is hope!
Webster
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.
World English Bible
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
Youngs Literal Translation
He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.
Interlinear
Nathan
Peh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him. 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. 30 Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Job 42:5-6
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee.
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope for thy latter end, says LORD, and [thy] sons shall come again to their own border.
Ezekiel 16:63
that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou have done, says lord LORD.
Joel 2:14
Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering to LORD your God?
Jonah 3:9
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye LORD, all ye meek of the earth who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. It may be ye will be hid in the day of LORD's anger.
Luke 15:18-19
After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.