Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 3:40
40Let us examine and test our ways, and let us return to Adonai.
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 Elyon that both calamities and good things proceed? 39Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? Let us examine and test our ways, and let us return to Adonai. 41Let us lift up our heart and hands to God in heaven. 42We have transgressed and rebelled— You have not pardoned.
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 told them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. Sanctify yourselves, you and your kinsmen, so that you may bring up the Ark of Adonai, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.
- Job 11:13“If you devote your heart to Him and spread out your hands to Him,
- Job 34:31“Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have born chastisement, but I will not act wickedly any more.
- Psalms 4:4But know that Adonai has set apart the godly for His own. Adonai will hear when I call to Him.
- Psalms 119:59I have considered my ways and turned my feet back to Your testimonies.
- Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,
- Ezekiel 18:28Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he committed, he will surely live, not die.
- Haggai 1:5But now,” thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Set your heart on your ways!
- 1 Corinthians 11:28But a man must examine himself, and then let him eat of the bread and drink from the cup.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5Test yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Examine yourselves! Or don’t you know yourselves—that Messiah Yeshua is in you? Unless of course you failed the test.
- Deuteronomy 4:30“When you are in distress and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you will return to Adonai your God and listen to His voice.
- 2 Chronicles 30:6At the king’s command, the couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials saying: “You men of Israel, turn back to Adonai, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
- Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
- Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to Adonai. For He has torn, but He will heal us. He has smitten, but He will bind us up.
- Hosea 12:6Even Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot— Adonai is His memorial-Name.
- Hosea 14:1Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants dashed to pieces, their pregnant women ripped open.
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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