Lamentations 3:29

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:21-36

Here the clouds begin to disperse and the sky to clear up; the complaint was very melancholy in the former part of the chapter, and yet here the tune is altered and the mourners in Zion begin to look a little pleasant. But for hope, the heart would break. To save the heart from being quite broken, here is something called to mind, which gives ground for hope (Lam. 3:21), which refers to what comes after, not to what goes before. I make to return to my heart (so the margin words it); what we... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:29

He putteth his mouth in the dust ,.... Of self-abhorrence; sensible of his own vileness and nothingness, his unworthiness, and the unprofitableness of all his duties; ascribing the whole of his salvation to the free grace of God, Job 42:6 ; humbling himself under the mighty hand of God; not daring to open his mouth in a complaining way against him; but prostrating himself before him to the earth, as the manner of the eastern people in prayer was, to which the allusion is; licking as it... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:29

He putteth his mouth in the dust - Lives in a state of deep humility. If so be there may be hope - Because there is room for hope. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:29

Verse 29 He continues the same subject; for he describes to us men so subdued to obedience that they are ready to bear whatever God may lay on them. He then says that the sitting and the silence of which he spoke, so far prevailed, that the children of God, though in extreme evils, did not yet cease to persevere in their obedience. For it sometimes happens that those who have made some progress in the fear of God, give proof of their obedience and patience in some small trial; but when they are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-36

RESIGNATION AND HOPEFULNESS . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:28-30

He sitteth alone, etc.; rather, Let him sit alone … let him keep silence ( Lamentations 3:28 )… let him put ( Lamentations 3:29 )… let him give … let him be filled ( Lamentations 3:30 ). The connection is—since it is good for a man to be afflicted, let him sit still, when trouble is sent, and resign himself to bear it. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:29

He putteth his mouth, etc. An Oriental manner of expressing submission (comp. Micah 7:17 ; Psalms 72:9 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:28-30

Translate:Let him sit alone and keep silence;For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him.Let him place his mouth in the dust;Perchance there is hope.Let him offer his cheek to him that smiteth him;Let him be filled to the full with reproach.It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth, but only if he bear it rightly. To attain this result, let him learn resignation, remembering who has laid the yoke upon him. This reverential silence is described Lamentations 3:29, as putting the mouth in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:27-30

Lamentations 3:27-30. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth That he be inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which may give him a right sense of the duty which he owes to God, and the obedience he ought to pay to his laws. For the prophet’s expression is very applicable to the yoke of God’s commands; it is good for us to take that yoke upon us in our youth; we cannot begin too soon to be religious; it will make our duty the more acceptable to God, and easy to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-66

Grief, repentance and hope (3:1-66)This poem is different in style from the previous two. The poet speaks as if he is the representative of all Judah, describing Judah’s sufferings as if they were his own. And those sufferings are God’s righteous judgment (3:1-3). He is like a starving man ready to die. Indeed, he feels as if he already dwells in the world of the dead (4-6). He is like a man chained and locked inside a stone prison from which there is no way out (7-9).To the writer God seems... read more

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