Parallel Verses
Webster
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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 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;
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 Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the 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; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye are reprobates?
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
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Deuteronomy 4:30
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things have come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient to his voice;
1 Chronicles 15:12-13
And said to them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD 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 princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you that have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if ye turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your children will find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they will return into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return to him.
Job 11:13-15
If thou preparest thy heart, and stretchest out thy hands towards him;
Job 34:31-32
Surely it is meet to be 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 forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considereth and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Hosea 14:1-3
O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity.
Haggai 1:5-9
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Zechariah 1:3-4
Therefore say thou to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye to me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Acts 26:20
But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for 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 should not be judged.