Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:9For if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”
Job 34:31“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
Psalms 119:59I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Hosea 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
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 →