Lamentations 3:28 BSB

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.

BSB

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ASV

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

KJV

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

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Commentary

2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2468: “Solitude, Silence, Submission” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1896)

THUS the Prophet describes the conduct of a person in deep anguish of heart. When he does not know what to do, his soul, as if by instinct, humbles itself. He gets into some secret place, he utters no speech, he gives himself over to moaning and to tears, and then he bows himself lower and yet lower before the Divine Majesty, as if he felt that the only hope for him in the extremity of his sorrow was to make complete submission to God and to lie in the very dust before Him.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He does not fight against the yoke (Jer 31:18; Ac 9:5), but accommodates himself to it. alone--The heathen applauded magnanimity, but they looked to display and the praise of men. The child of God, in the absence of any witness, "alone," silently submits to the will of God. borne it upon him--that is, because he is used to bearing it on him.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יֵשֵׁ֤ב	ye.Shev	let him sit	H3427 →
בָּדָד֙	ba.Dad	alone	H910 →
וְיִדֹּ֔ם	ve.yi.Dom	and let him be silent	H1826 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
נָטַ֖ל	na.Tal	he has laid [it]	H5190 →
עָלָֽיו׃	'a.Lav	on him	H5921 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H1826veyidomand let him be silent30×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 39:9
I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
leads to
- Job 2:10
  “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- 1 Samuel 3:18
  So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
- Job 40:4–5
  “Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
Through
Jeremiah 15:17
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
leads to
- Psalms 1:1
  Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
Through
Psalms 102:7
I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
leads to
- Psalms 77:4
  You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
Through
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to…
leads to
- Isaiah 3:26
  And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
- Isaiah 15:3
  In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
- Job 2:12–13
  When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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About Lamentations