Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto 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;
Darby Translation
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
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.
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 What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin? 40 We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah. 41 We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:5
Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?
Psalm 119:59
I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet unto Thy testimonies.
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
Joel 2:12-13
And also now -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.
Deuteronomy 4:30
in distress being to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened to His voice;
1 Chronicles 15:12-13
and saith to them, 'Ye are heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and ye have brought up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel, unto the place I have prepared for it;
2 Chronicles 30:6
And the runners go with letters from the hand of the king and his heads, into all Israel and Judah, even according to the command of the king, saying, 'O sons of Israel, turn back unto Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He doth turn back unto the escaped part that is left of you from the hand of the kings of Asshur;
2 Chronicles 30:9
for in your turning back unto Jehovah, your brethren and your sons have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land, for gracious and merciful is Jehovah your God, and He doth not turn aside the face from you, if ye turn back unto Him.'
Job 11:13-15
If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,
Job 34:31-32
For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
Psalm 4:4
Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.
Isaiah 55:7
Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
Ezekiel 18:28
And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,
Hosea 6:1
'Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
Hosea 12:6
And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
Hosea 14:1-3
Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.
Haggai 1:5-9
And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.
Zechariah 1:3-4
And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Acts 26:20
but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;
1 Corinthians 11:28
and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;
1 Corinthians 11:31
for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,