Lamentations 3:40
Let us search through and investigate our ways, and let us return to the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39Wherefore should a living man complain? let every man complain because of his sins.
41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12And he said unto them, Ye are the chiefs of the family divisions of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and bring up the ark of the Lord the God of Israel unto [the place which] I have prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:9For If ye return unto the Lord, your brethren and your children will find mercy in the presence of their captors, so that they may return to this land; for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his countenance from you, if ye return unto him.
Job 34:31For truly it is only fitting to say unto God, “I bear [cheerfully], I will not do any wrong;
Psalms 119:59I have thought over my ways, and made my feet return unto thy testimonies.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of unrighteousness his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and unto our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Hosea 5:15I will go [from here, and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my presence: in their affliction will they seek 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 →