Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the 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.

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.

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 What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin? 40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord; 41 Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.



Cross References

2 Corinthians 13:5

Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?

Psalm 119:59

I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.

Psalm 139:23-24

O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

Joel 2:12-13

But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

1 Chronicles 15:12-13

And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

2 Chronicles 30:6

So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

Job 11:13-15

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

Psalm 4:4

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Isaiah 55:7

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

Hosea 6:1

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

Hosea 12:6

So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

Hosea 14:1-3

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

Haggai 1:5-9

For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

Zechariah 1:3-4

And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.

Acts 26:20

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

1 Corinthians 11:28

But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.

1 Corinthians 11:31

But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.

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