Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
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;
Webster
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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
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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 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 Yahweh. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:5
Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified.
Psalm 119:59
I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Joel 2:12-13
"Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:
1 Chronicles 15:12-13
and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:6
So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, "You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him."
Job 11:13-15
"If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Job 34:31-32
"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
Psalm 4:4
Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search 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 Yahweh, and he will have mercy on 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 Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Hosea 14:1-3
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
Haggai 1:5-9
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
Zechariah 1:3-4
Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'Return to me,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says Yahweh of Armies.
Acts 26:20
but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.