Lamentations 3:30 - Exposition

He giveth his cheek. Notice the striking affinity (which is hardly accidental) to Job 16:10 ; Isaiah 1:6 . The ideal of the righteous man, according to these kindred books, contains, as one of its most prominent features, the patient endurance of affliction; and so too does the same ideal, received and amplified by the greatest "Servant of Jehovah" ( Matthew 5:39 ).