Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Let us examine our lifestyles, putting them to the test, and turn back 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.
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.
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
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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 should anyone living complain, any mortal, about being punished for sin? 40 Let us examine our lifestyles, putting them to the test, and turn back to the LORD. 41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:5
Keep examining yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. Test yourselves! You know, don't you, that Jesus the Messiah lives in you? Could it be that you are failing the test?
Psalm 119:59
I examined my lifestyle and set my feet in the direction of your decrees.
Psalm 139:23-24
Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts.
Joel 2:12-13
"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "Turn back to me with your whole heart, with fasting, tears, and mourning.
Deuteronomy 4:30
In your distress, when all these things happen to you in days to come and you return to the LORD your God, then you will hear his voice.
1 Chronicles 15:12-13
and addressed them: "As leaders of your Levitical families, set yourselves apart, both you and your relatives, so you can be qualified to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place I've prepared for it.
2 Chronicles 30:6
Couriers were sent throughout all of Israel and Judah with letters written by the king and his princes, just as the king had commanded:
2 Chronicles 30:9
If you return to the LORD, your relatives and children will receive compassion from those who took them away captive, and they'll return to this land, because the LORD is both gracious and compassionate he will not turn away from you if you return to him."
Job 11:13-15
"Now for you, if you will prepare your heart, spread out your hands to him.
Job 34:31-32
"Has anyone ever really told God, "I've endured, and I won't act corruptly anymore.
Psalm 4:4
Be angry, yet do not sin. Think about this when upon your beds, and be silent. Interlude
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he reconsidered his transgression and turned away from everything that he had been doing, he'll certainly live and not die.
Hosea 6:1
"Come, let us return to the LORD; even though he has torn us, he will heal us. Even though he has wounded us, he will bind our wounds.
Hosea 12:6
So you, return to your God; guard grace and justice, and look to your God always.
Hosea 14:1-3
"Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have fallen due to your own iniquity.
Haggai 1:5-9
"Now this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, says: "Carefully consider your ways:
Zechariah 1:3-4
So tell them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Return to me," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and I will return to you.
Acts 26:20
Instead, I first told the people in Damascus and Jerusalem, then all the people in Judea and after that the gentiles to repent, turn to God, and perform deeds that are consistent with such repentance.
1 Corinthians 11:28
A person must examine himself and then eat the bread and drink from the cup,
1 Corinthians 11:31
But if we judged ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.