Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He will give his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is 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.
A Conservative Version
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may 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;
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 He will sit alone and be silent, for he laid upon him. 29 He will give his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is hope. 30 He will give the cheek to him striking him: he will be filled with reproach.
Cross References
Job 40:4
Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when straits were to him he besought the face of Jehovah his God, and he will humble himself greatly from before the God of his fathers.
Job 42:5-6
By the hearing of the ear I heard of thee: and now mine eyes saw thee:
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope to thy latter state, says Jehovah, and thy sons turned back to their bound.
Ezekiel 16:63
So that thou shalt remember, and thou wert ashamed, and there shall no more be to thee an opening of the mouth from the face of thy shame in my expiating for thee for all which thou didst, says the Lord Jehovah.
Joel 2:14
Who shall know he will turn back, and lamenting and leaving a blessing after him, a gift and a libation to Jehovah your God?
Jonah 3:9
Who shall know God will turn back and lament, and turning back from the burning of his anger and we shall not perish?
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the earth, who did his judgment; seek justice, seek humility: perhaps ye shall be covered in the day of the anger of Jehovah.
Luke 15:18-19
Having risen, I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
Luke 18:13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful.
Romans 3:19
And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.