Lamentations 3:40
Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.
41Let vs lift vp our hearts with our handes vnto God in the heauens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12And he saide vnto them, Ye are the chiefe fathers of the Leuites: sanctifie your selues, and your brethren, and bring vp the Arke of the Lord God of Israel vnto the place that I haue prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:9For if ye returne vnto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall finde mercy before them that led them captiues, and they shall returne vnto this lande: for the Lord your God is gracious and mercifull, and will not turne away his face from you, if ye conuert vnto him.
Job 34:31Surely it appertaineth vnto God to say, I haue pardoned, I will not destroy.
Psalms 119:59I haue considered my waies, and turned my feete into thy testimonies.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for hee is very ready to forgiue.
Hosea 5:15I will go, and returne to my place, til they acknowledge their fault, and seeke me: in their affliction they will seeke me diligently.
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 →