Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Let us examine and probe our ways,
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 NunLet us search out and examine our ways,
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.

Youngs Literal Translation

We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Let us search
חפשׂ 
Chaphas 
Usage: 23

and try
חקר 
Chaqar 
Usage: 27

דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

and turn again
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

Devotionals

Devotionals about Lamentations 3:40

References

Prayers for Lamentations 3:40

Context Readings

Israel's Affliction

39 Mem Why does the living man have pain, the man in his sins? 40 Let us examine and probe our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.
41 Nun Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.



Cross References

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do ye not know your own selves if Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are reprobates.

Psalm 119:59

I considered my ways and turned 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

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn unto me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourning:

Deuteronomy 4:30

When thou art in trouble and all these things are come upon thee, if in the latter days thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God and shalt hear his voice

1 Chronicles 15:12-13

and said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers among the Levites; sanctify yourselves and your brethren and bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it,

2 Chronicles 30:6

So the posts went with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye sons of Israel, return unto the LORD 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 unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find mercy before those that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land, for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return unto him.

Job 11:13-15

If thou would prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands toward him;

Job 34:31-32

For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy.

Psalm 4:4

Stand in awe, and sin not; meditate in your heart upon your bed, and desist. Selah.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he saw and left all his rebellions that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Hosea 6:1

Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 12:6

Therefore be thou converted unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and in thy God wait continually.

Hosea 14:1-3

O Israel, become converted unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Haggai 1:5-9

Now therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Consider your ways.

Zechariah 1:3-4

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Turn unto me, said the LORD of the hosts, and I will turn unto you, said the LORD of the hosts.

Acts 26:20

but I announced first unto those of Damascus and at Jerusalem and throughout all the coasts of Judaea and then to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

1 Corinthians 11:28

But let each man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

1 Corinthians 11:31

For if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged.

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