Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.



Cross References

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something.

Psalm 119:59

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

Psalm 139:23-24

Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts,

Joel 2:12-13

Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When thou are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon thee, in the latter days thou shall return to LORD thy God, and hearken to his voice.

1 Chronicles 15:12-13

And said to them, Ye are the heads of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brothers, that ye may bring up the ark of LORD, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.

2 Chronicles 30:6

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his rulers throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye sons of Israel, turn again to LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, th

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if ye turn again to LORD, your brothers and your sons shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land. For LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face fro

Job 11:13-15

If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,

Job 34:31-32

For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more].

Psalm 4:4

Stand in awe, and sin not. Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Isaiah 55:7

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

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Hosea 6:1

Come, and let us return to LORD, for he has torn, and he will heal us. He has smitten, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 12:6

Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

Hosea 14:1-3

O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity.

Haggai 1:5-9

Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Zechariah 1:3-4

Therefore say thou to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return to me, says LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts.

Acts 26:20

but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

1 Corinthians 11:28

But let a man examine himself, and let him so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

1 Corinthians 11:31

But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

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