Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:28-31

"Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever." — Lamentations 3:28-31 (ASV)

He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him. He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

What music there is in that line! He may put you away for a while, and seem to leave you; but the Lord will not cast off for ever. God may seem to put us away from him, but it is written, He hates putting away. There is no divorce between Christ and the soul that is once espoused to him. Their separation shall not be perpetual, for nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.