Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

We will search out our ways, and examine and turn back even to Jehovah.

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.

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 shall a living man murmur? a man for his sin? 40 We will search out our ways, and examine and turn back even to Jehovah. 41 We will lift up our hearts upon the hands to God in the heavens.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 13:5

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?

Psalm 119:59

I reckoned my ways, and I will turn back 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

And also now, says Jehovah, Turn back even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with wailing.

Deuteronomy 4:30

In straitness to thee, and all these words found thee in the last of the days, and thou didst turn to Jehovah thy God and heardest to his voice;

1 Chronicles 15:12-13

And he will say to them, Ye heads of the fathers to the Levites: ye shall purify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and bring ye up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel to that I prepared for it.

2 Chronicles 30:6

And the runners will go with the letters from the hand of the king and his chiefs in all Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, Ye sons of Israel, turn back to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaak and Israel, and he will turn back to the escaping being left to you from the hand of the king of Assur.

2 Chronicles 30:9

For in your turning back to Jehovah, your brethren and your sons are for compassions before them making them captive, to turn back to this land: for Jehovah your God being merciful and compassionate, and he will not turn away his face from you if ye shall turn back to him.

Job 11:13-15

If thou preparedst thy heart, and didst spread thy hands towards him;

Job 34:31-32

For he said to God, I was lifted up, I will pervert no more.

Psalm 4:4

Be ye disturbed, and ye shall not sin: say in your heart upon your bed,

Isaiah 55:7

The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.

Ezekiel 18:28

And he will see and turn back from all his transgressions which he did, living, he shall live; he shall not die.

Hosea 6:1

Go ye and we will turn back to Jehovah: for he rent and he will heal us; he will strike, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 12:6

And thou, in thy God thou shalt turn back: watch mercy and judgment, and wait always for thy God.

Hosea 14:1-3

Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.

Haggai 1:5-9

And now, thus said Jehovah of armies: Set your hearts upon your ways

Zechariah 1:3-4

And thou saidst to them, Thus said Jehovah of armies: Turn back to me, says Jehovah of armies, and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies.

Acts 26:20

But to them in Damascus first, and Jerusalem, and all the country of Judea, and to the nations, announcing to change the mind, and to turn back to God, doing works worthy of change of mind.

1 Corinthians 11:28

And let a man try himself, and so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

1 Corinthians 11:31

For if we examined ourselves, we should not be judged.

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