Lamentations 3:28
Good News Translation
When we suffer, we should sit alone in silent patience;

New Revised Standard Version
to sit alone in silence when the Lord has imposed it,

Contemporary English Version
and to sit silently alone, if this is what the LORD intends.

New American Bible
To sit alone and in silence, when its weight lies heavy,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

Lamentations 2:10 Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

Psalm 102:7 I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

Context
Jeremiah's Hope
27Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth. 28Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.29Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 15:17
I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

Lamentations 3:27
Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

Lamentations 3:27
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