Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
New American Standard Bible
And let us return to the Lord.
King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Holman Bible
נ Nun
and turn back to the Lord.
International Standard Version
Let us examine our lifestyles, putting them to the test, and turn back to the LORD.
A Conservative Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD.
American Standard Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
Amplified
Let us test and examine our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Julia Smith Translation
We will search out our ways, and examine and turn back even to Jehovah.
King James 2000
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let us test and examine our ways; let us return to Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Nun} Let us look well upon our own ways, and remember ourselves, and turn again to the LORD.
NET Bible
(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
Let us examine and search our ways, and return to the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
Let us search out our ways, and examine them well, and let us return unto Yahweh;
Webster
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
World English Bible
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
Themes
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:40
Prayers for Lamentations 3:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
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 Jehovah. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:5
examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?
Psalm 119:59
I have thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
Joel 2:12-13
Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;
Deuteronomy 4:30
In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice,
1 Chronicles 15:12-13
and he said to them, Ye are the chief fathers of the Levites; hallow yourselves, ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:6
And the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if ye return to Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion with those that have carried them captive, so that they shall come again unto this land; for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return to him.
Job 11:13-15
If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Job 34:31-32
For hath he said unto God, I bear chastisement, I will not offend;
Psalm 4:4
Be moved with anger, and sin not; meditate in your own hearts upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
Hosea 6:1
Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Hosea 12:6
And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Hosea 14:1-3
O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Haggai 1:5-9
And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Zechariah 1:3-4
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Acts 26:20
but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
1 Corinthians 11:31
But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.