Lamentations 3:40
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
In Context
39What — sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?
41We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:12and saith to them, 'Ye [are] heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and ye have brought up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel, unto [the place] I have prepared for it;
2 Chronicles 30:9for in your turning back unto Jehovah, your brethren and your sons have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land, for gracious and merciful [is] Jehovah your God, and He doth not turn aside the face from you, if ye turn back unto Him.'
Job 34:31For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
Psalms 119:59I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet unto Thy testimonies.
Isaiah 55:7Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
Hosea 5:15I go — I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do 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 →