Lamentations 3:40
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?
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.
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- Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
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- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
- WEB
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
- ASV
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
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- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
- BLB
- Let us search out our ways, and let us seek, and turn back to YHWH!
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- La oss ransake våre veier og granske dem, og la oss vende om til Herren!
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- La oss undersøke og prøve våre veier, og la oss vende tilbake til Herren.
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- La oss ransake våre veier og granske dem, og la oss vende om til Herren!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
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?
Read in contextPsalms 139:23–24
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Read in contextJoel 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:
Read in contextPsalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextPsalms 119:59
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Read in contextHaggai 1:5–9
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Read in contextHosea 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.
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