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A Posture of Submission
Commentators explain that putting one's mouth in the dust is a powerful image of complete humility and submission before God. It signifies silencing complaints, acknowledging God's sovereignty, and prostrating oneself like a subject before a king, especially during times of suffering.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:28–30
18th Century
Theologian
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;
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:29
19th Century
Bishop
He puts his mouth in the dust ... —The outward image is that of the prostration of an Eastern subject before a king: his …
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:28–33
19th Century
Preacher
He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him. He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there may be hope. He gives his ch…
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:29
16th Century
Theologian
He continues the same subject, for he describes to us people so subdued to obedience that they are ready to bear whatever God may lay on them. He t…
John Gill
On Lamentations 3:29
17th Century
Pastor
He putteth his mouth in the dust. Of self-abhorrence; sensible of his own vileness and nothingness, his unworthiness, and…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:21–36
17th Century
Minister
Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that th…