Lamentations 3:40
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to Yahweh. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39How can any person alive complain? How can a person complain about the punishment for his sins? 1
41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in the heavens: 1
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12He said to them, “You are the leaders of the Levite families. Consecrate yourselves, both you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:9For if you turn back to Yahweh, your brothers and children will find compassion before those who led them away as prisoners, and they will come back into this land. For Yahweh your God, is gracious and merciful, and will not turn his face away from you, if you return to him.”
Job 34:31Suppose someone says to God, 1 'I am certainly guilty, but I will not sin any longer; 1
Psalms 119:59I examined my ways 1 and turned my feet to your covenant decrees. 1
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked leave his path, and the man of sin his thoughts. 1 Let him return to Yahweh, and he will pity him, and to our God, who will abundantly forgive him. 1
Hosea 5:15I will go and return to my place, 1 until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, 1 until they earnestly seek me in their distress.”
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 →