New English Translation
Lamentations 3:40
40Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us 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
38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes – both calamity and blessing? 39Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? נ (Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord. 41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven: 42“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.” ס (Samek)
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:40 word by word
נַחְפְּשָׂ֤ה דְרָכֵ֙ינוּ֙ וְֽנַחְקֹ֔רָה וְנָשׁ֖וּבָה עַד־יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 3:40
- 1 Chronicles 15:12He told them: “You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it.
- Job 11:13“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,
- Job 34:31“Has anyone said to God, ‘I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.
- Psalms 4:4Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)
- Psalms 119:59I consider my actions and follow your rules.
- Psalms 139:23Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!
- Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Haggai 1:5Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Think carefully about what you are doing.
- 1 Corinthians 11:28A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless, indeed, you fail the test!
- Deuteronomy 4:30In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him
- 2 Chronicles 30:6Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read: “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.
- Isaiah 55:7The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
- Hosea 6:1“Come on! Let’s return to the Lord! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!
- Hosea 12:6But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.
- Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!
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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