Lamentations 3:40
We should look at ourselves, examine what we're doing, and return to the Lord.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39Why should any human being complain about the results of their sins?
41Let's not just hold up our hands to God in heaven, but our minds as well, saying,
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12He told them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You must make yourselves and your relatives ceremonially clean and pure before you bring back the Ark of God, the Lord of Israel to the place I have made for it.
2 Chronicles 30:9If you come back to the Lord, your relatives and children will receive mercy from their captors and will return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful. He will not reject you if you come back to him.”
Job 34:31If you were to say to God, ‘I have sinned, but I won't do bad things any more.
Psalms 119:59As I think about my life, I turn to follow what you have said.
Isaiah 55:7Wicked people should change their ways and get rid of even the thought of doing something wrong. They should turn to the Lord so he can be merciful to them. Come back to our God, because he's generous with his forgiveness.
Hosea 5:15Then I will leave and return to where I came from until they acknowledge their wrongs, and in their distress they will seek my face and beg for my help.”
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 →