KJV King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 3
37 Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
39 Wherefore 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 unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
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2 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?Psalm 139:23-24Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:Joel 2:12-13Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:Psalm 4:4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.Psalm 119:59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.Haggai 1:5-9Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.Hosea 6:1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.Hosea 14:1-3O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.1 Corinthians 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.2 Chronicles 30:9For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.1 Corinthians 11:31For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.2 Chronicles 30:6So 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 unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.Deuteronomy 4:30When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, [even] in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;Zechariah 1:3-4Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.Hosea 12:6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.Job 34:31-32Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]:
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