Lamentations 3:40
NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
41NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12And he said to them: “You who are the leaders of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brothers, and bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place that has been prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:9For if you will return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will find mercy before their masters, who led them away as captives, and they will be returned to this land. For the Lord your God is compassionate and lenient, and he will not avert his face from you, if you will return to him.”
Job 34:31Therefore, since I have been speaking about God, I will not prevent you from doing the same.
Isaiah 55:7Let the impious one abandon his way, and the iniquitous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will take pity on him, and to our God, for he is great in forgiveness.
Hosea 5:15I will go and return to my place, until you shall grow faint and seek my face.
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 →