God’s Word Translation
Lamentations 3:40
40Let us look closely at our ways and examine them and then return to the Lord.
Lamentations 3:40 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord;
Context of Lamentations 3:40
38Both good and bad come from the mouth of the Most High God. 39“Why should any living mortal (any person) complain about being punished for sin? Let us look closely at our ways and examine them and then return to the Lord. 41Let us raise our hearts and hands to God in heaven. 42“We have been disobedient and rebellious. You haven’t forgiven us.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:40 word by word
נַחְפְּשָׂ֤ה דְרָכֵ֙ינוּ֙ וְֽנַחְקֹ֔רָה וְנָשׁ֖וּבָה עַד־יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:40
- 1 Chronicles 15:12He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must perform the ceremonies to make yourselves holy. Then bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I prepared for it.
- Job 11:13“If you want to set your heart right, then pray to him.
- Job 34:31“But suppose such a person says to God, ‘I am guilty, I will stop my immoral behavior.
- Psalms 4:4Tremble and do not sin. Think about this on your bed and remain quiet. Selah
- Psalms 119:59I have thought about my life, and I have directed my feet back to your written instructions.
- Psalms 139:23Examine me, O God, and know my mind. Test me, and know my thoughts.
- Ezekiel 18:28He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.
- Haggai 1:5Now, this is what the Lord of Armies says: Carefully consider your ways!
- 1 Corinthians 11:28With this in mind, individuals must determine whether what they are doing is proper when they eat the bread and drink from the cup.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are still in the Christian faith. Test yourselves! Don’t you recognize that you are people in whom Jesus Christ lives? Could it be that you’re failing the test?
- Deuteronomy 4:30When you’re in distress and all these things happen to you, then you will finally come back to the Lord your God and obey him.
- 2 Chronicles 30:6Messengers took letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. The king’s order said, “Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Then he will return to the few of you who escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria.
- Isaiah 55:7Let wicked people abandon their ways. Let evil people abandon their thoughts. Let them return to the Lord, and he will show compassion to them. Let them return to our God, because he will freely forgive them.
- Hosea 6:1Let’s return to the Lord. Even though he has torn us to pieces, he will heal us. Even though he has wounded us, he will bandage our wounds.
- Hosea 12:6Return to your God. Be loyal and fair, and always wait with hope for your God.
- Hosea 14:1Israel, return to the Lord your God. You have stumbled because of your sins.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 40Let us search - How are we to get the pardon of our sins? The prophet tells us: Let us examine ourselves. "Let us turn again to the Lord." "Let us lift up our heart;" let us make fervent prayer and supplication for mercy. "Let us lift up our hand;" let us solemnly promise to be his, and bind ourselves in a covenant to be the Lord's only: so much lifting up the hand to God implies. Or, let us put our heart on our hand, and offer it to God; so some have…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 40-42Verses 40-42 The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them. Lamentations 3:40 And turn again to the Lord - Or, “and return to Yahweh.” The prep. (to) in the Hebrew implies not half way, but the whole. Lamentations 3:41 Literally, “Let us lift up our heart unto our hands unto God in heaven;” as if the heart first lifted up the hands, and then with them mounted up in prayer to God. In real prayer the outward expression is caused by the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 37-41Verses 37-41 While there is life there is hope; and instead of complaining that things are bad, we should encourage ourselves with the hope they will be better. We are sinful men, and what we complain of, is far less than our sins deserve. We should complain to God, and not of him. We are apt, in times of calamity, to reflect on other people's ways, and blame them; but our duty is to search and try our own ways, that we may turn from evil to God. Our…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 40-42Repentance is essential for receiving salvation (Isaiah 1:27; Jeremiah 3:22; Ezekiel 3:21).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 40-4240-42. us--Jeremiah and his fellow countrymen in their calamity. search--as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them (Psa 139:23, 24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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