Klagelieder 3:29

Lutherbibel

und seinen Mund in den Staub stecke und der Hoffnung warte

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Er stecke seinen Mund in den Staub; vielleicht ist noch Hoffnung vorhanden!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

putteth: 2 Chronicles 33:12, Job 40:4, Job 42:5, Job 42:6, Ezekiel 16:63, Romans 3:19

if: Joel 2:14, Jonah 3:9, Zephaniah 2:3, Luke 15:18, Luke 15:19, Luke 18:13

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:17 - of the dust Jonah 3:6 - and covered Micah 1:10 - roll Micah 7:17 - lick

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 were the dust of the earth, under a sense of the distance and disproportion between God and him, who is but dust and ashes; so the Targum adds,

"and is prostrate before the Lord:''

if so be there may be hope; or, "peradventure there is hope" d; for, as some interpreters observe, these words do not express hesitation and doubt, but hope and expectation of help, to bear the yoke of God's commandments, and in due time to be delivered from affliction and distress.

d אולי יש תקוה "forte est expectatio", Junius Tremellius "fortassis", Piscator, Cocceius; "forte est spes", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 the dust, and so lying prostrate before the Deity; while Lamentations 3:30 the harder task is imposed of bearing contumely with meekness (margin reference), and not shrinking from the last dregs of the cup of reproach. Many who submit readily to God are indignant when the suffering comes through men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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.