Lamentations 3:40

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Lamentations 3:40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

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and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.

“If you would direct your heart right
And spread out your hand to Him,

“For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

Tremble,

and do not sin;

Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

I considered my ways
And turned my feet to Your testimonies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways!

But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you

fail the test?

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When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.

The couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the command of the king, saying, “O sons of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and are left from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

Let the wicked forsake his way

And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.

“Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

Therefore, return to your God,

Observe kindness and justice,

And wait for your God continually.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,

For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
“Return to Me with all your heart,
And with fasting, weeping and mourning;

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Return to Me,” declares the Lord of hosts, “that I may return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.

but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.