"Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD." — Lamentations 3:40

Lamentations 3:40 · KJV

“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.”

— Lamentations 3:40

Verse 39

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? {complain: or, murmur}

Verse 41

Let us lift up our heart with {our} hands unto God in the heavens.

Lamentations 3 — Context

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? {complain: or, murmur}

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Let us lift up our heart with {our} hands unto God in the heavens.

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine 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?

Psalms 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:

Psalms 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 unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. {the unrighteous...: Heb. the man of iniquity} {abundantly...: Heb. multiply to pardon}

Psalms 119:59

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Haggai 1:5-9

Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}

Hosea 6:1

Come, 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.