Lamentations 3:28 - Compare All Versions

Lamentations 3:28-30 MSG (The Message)

When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face. The “worst” is never the worst.

Lamentations 3:28 KJV (King James Version)

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

Lamentations 3:28 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.

Lamentations 3:28 NCV (New Century Version)

He should sit alone and be quiet; the LORD has given him hard work to do.

Lamentations 3:28 ASV (American Standard Version)

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

Lamentations 3:28 NIV (New International Version)

Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.

Lamentations 3:28 NKJV (New King James Version)

Let him sit alone and keep silent, Because God has laid it on him

Lamentations 3:28 AMP (Amplified Bible)

Let him sit alone [in hope] and keep quiet, Because God has laid it on him [for his benefit]. [Rom 8:28]

Lamentations 3:28 NLT (New Living Translation)

Let them sit alone in silence beneath the LORD’s demands.

Lamentations 3:28 TPT (The Passion Translation)

If your burden is heavy and hard to bear, endure it quietly.

Lamentations 3:28 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him