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Lamentations 3:29-31
New English Translation

29 Let him bury his face in the dust;[a]
perhaps there is hope.
30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him;[b]
let him have his fill of insults.

כ (Kaf)

31 For the Lord[c] will not
reject us forever.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:29 tn Heb “Let him put his mouth in the dust.”
  2. Lamentations 3:30 tn Heb “to the smiter.”
  3. Lamentations 3:31 tc The MT reads אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay, “the Lord”) here rather than יהוה (YHWH, “the Lord”). See the tc note at 1:14.
  4. Lamentations 3:31 tn The verse is unusually short, and something unrecoverable may be missing.
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