Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
Verse Takeaways
1
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.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Lamentations
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
9
18th Century
Presbyterian
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;
19th Century
Anglican
He puts his mouth in the dust ... —The outward image is that of the prostration of an Eastern subject before a king: his …
Baptist
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…
Your support helps us maintain this resource for everyone
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He putteth his mouth in the dust. Of self-abhorrence; sensible of his own vileness and nothingness, his unworthiness, and…
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…
Get curated content & updates
13th Century
Catholic
Here the author describes the condition of the one who waits.
