Lamentations 3:30

World English Bible (2000)

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 50:6 : 6 I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
  • Matt 5:39 : 39 But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
  • Matt 26:67 : 67 Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
  • Luke 6:29 : 29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
  • Ps 123:3 : 3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
  • Mic 5:1 : 1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

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    6I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.

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    29To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.

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  • Matt 5:38-40
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    40If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

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    10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

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    23Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

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    3For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

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    41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

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    12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

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    63The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

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    32For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

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    30They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

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    65Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

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    44The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

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    67Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

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