Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39Wherefore then murmureth the living man? Let him murmur at his own sin!
41Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens!
Cross References
Job 34:31Surely thou shouldst say unto God, “I have received chastisement; I will no more offend;
Psalms 119:59I think on my ways, And turn my feet to thy statutes;
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him, And to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Hosea 5:15I will go back to my place, Till they have suffered for their sin, and seek my face! In their affliction they will seek me early.
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 →