Lamentations 3:40
Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
41Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brethren, and brine the ark of the Lord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it:
2 Chronicles 30:9For if you turn again to the Lord: your brethren, and children shall find mercy before their masters, that have led them away captive, and they shall return into this land: for the Lord your God is merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
Job 34:31Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.
Hosea 5:15I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, 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 →