Lamentations 3:40
We search our ways, and investigate, || And turn back to YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39Why does a living man sigh habitually, || A man for his sin?
41We lift up our heart on the hands to God in the heavens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12and says to them, “You [are] heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and you have brought up the Ark of YHWH, God of Israel, to [the place] I have prepared for it;
2 Chronicles 30:9for in your turning back to YHWH, your brothers and your sons have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land, for your God YHWH [is] gracious and merciful, and He does not turn aside the face from you if you turn back to Him.”
Job 34:31For has any said to God: I have taken away, || I do not do corruptly,
Psalms 119:59I have reckoned my ways, || And turn back my feet to Your testimonies.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, || And the man of iniquity his thoughts, || And he returns to YHWH, || And He pities him, || And to our God, || For He multiplies to pardon.
Hosea 5:15I go—I return to My place, || Until they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they seek Me speedily!”
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 →