Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
41Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12And said to them, Ye are the heads of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brothers, that ye may bring up the ark of LORD, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:9For if ye turn again to LORD, your brothers and your sons shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land. For LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face fro
Job 34:31For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more].
Psalms 119:59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Hosea 5:15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →