Lamentations 3:40

Israel's Affliction

³⁹ Why should any living person complain,
any man, because of the punishment for his sins? ⁴⁰ נ NunLet us search out and examine our ways,
and turn back to the Lord.
⁴¹ Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
to God in heaven:

Let Us

Return to the Lord

To the Lord

Turn to the Lord

Jehovah

Nun

2 Corinthians 13:5

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail the test.

Psalm 119:59

I thought about my ways
and turned my steps back to Your decrees.

Psalm 139:23-24

Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.

Joel 2:12-13

Even now—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
turn to Me with all your heart,
with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to the Lord your God in later days and obey Him.

1 Chronicles 15:12-13

He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

2 Chronicles 30:6

So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the hand of the king and his officials, and according to the king’s command, saying, “Israelites, return to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped from the grasp of the kings of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 30:9

for when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

Job 11:13-15

As for you, if you redirect your heart
and lift up your hands to Him in prayer—

Job 34:31-32

Suppose someone says to God,
“I have endured my punishment;
I will no longer act wickedly.

Psalm 4:4

Be angry and do not sin;
on your bed, reflect in your heart and be still.Selah

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

Ezekiel 18:28

He will certainly live because he thought it over and turned from all the transgressions he had committed; he will not die.

Hosea 6:1

Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us,
and He will heal us;
He has wounded us,
and He will bind up our wounds.

Hosea 12:6

But you must return to your God.
Maintain love and justice,
and always put your hope in God.

Hosea 14:1-3

Israel, return to Yahweh your God,
for you have stumbled in your sin.

Haggai 1:5-9

Now, the Lord of Hosts says this: “Think carefully about your ways:

Zechariah 1:3-4

So tell the people: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to Me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

Acts 26:20

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

1 Corinthians 11:28

So a man should examine himself; in this way he should eat the bread and drink from the cup.

1 Corinthians 11:31

If we were properly evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged,