Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
New American Standard Bible
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 Nun
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 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.
Themes
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:40
Prayers for Lamentations 3:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
39 What? Should mankind complain, a living man, because of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. 41 Let us lift up our heart and hands to God in Heaven.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:5
examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?
Psalm 119:59
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to Your 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 Jehovah, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in trouble and when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you shall return to Jehovah your God and shall be obedient to His voice.
1 Chronicles 15:12-13
And he said to them, You are the heads of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel to the place which I have prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:6
And the runners went with the letters from the king and his rulers to Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, O sons of Israel, turn again to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped out of the hands of the king of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you turn again to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will have mercies before those who lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land. For Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.
Job 11:13-15
If you prepare your heart and stretch out your hands toward Him;
Job 34:31-32
For has any said to God, I have taken away; I will not pervert?
Psalm 4:4
Tremble, and sin not; speak within your own heart on your bed and be still. Selah.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he looks carefully, and turns away from all his sins that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Hosea 6:1
Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us; He has stricken, and He will bind us up.
Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn to your God; keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God forever.
Hosea 14:1-3
O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have fallen by your iniquity.
Haggai 1:5-9
And now so says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways;
Zechariah 1:3-4
And you say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn to Me, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will turn to you, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Acts 26:20
But to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I made known the command to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.