Lamentations 3:40
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
41Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.
2 Chronicles 30:9For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.
Job 34:31...
Psalms 119:59I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.
Isaiah 55:7Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
Hosea 5:15I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
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 →