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Poetic visual interpretation: Anonymous adult's turned cheek and closed eyes, dignified profile, no striking hand, injury, or abuse.
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Lamentations 3:30

The Cheek Offered

Affliction, Hope, and the Plea for Justice · Lamentations 3

Story guide: Anonymous adult's turned cheek and closed eyes, dignified profile. An offered cheek evokes endurance under insult.

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30Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him; let him be filled with reproach.

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