Lamentations

²⁸Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. ²⁹Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may he hope. ³⁰Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. ³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever. ³²For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. ³³For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. ³⁴To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,