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Lamentations 3:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. "
Lamentations 3:28
Verse in Context
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26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
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.
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Lamentations 3:1
"I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."
Lamentations 3:2
"He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
Lamentations 3:3
"Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."
Lamentations 3:4
"My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones."
Lamentations 3:5
"He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
Lamentations 3:6
"He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."
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