Lamentations 3:40New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Let us search out our ways, and examine them well, and let us return unto Yahweh;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Let vs search and try our waies, and turne againe to the LORD.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. |
Let us search
2664 {2664} Primeחָפַשׂchaphas{khaw-fas'}
A primitive root; to seek; causatively to conceal oneself (that is, let be sought), or mask.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
and try
2713 {2713} Primeחָקַרchaqar{khaw-kar'}
A primitive root; properly to penetrate; hence to examine intimately.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
our ways,
1870 {1870} Primeדֶּרֶךְderek{deh'-rek}
From H1869; a road (as trodden); figuratively a course of life or mode of action, often adverbially.
and turn again
7725 {7725} Primeשׁוּבshuwb{shoob}
A primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbially again.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
to
x5704 (5704) Complementעַד`ad{ad}
Properly the same as H5703 (used as a preposition, adverb or conjugation; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space ( even unto) or time ( during, while, until) or degree ( equally with).
Yähwè
יָהוֶה.
3068 {3068} PrimeיְהֹוָהY@hovah{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God. |
Lamentations 3:40-42
Nun
_ _ us — Jeremiah and his fellow countrymen in their calamity.
_ _ search — as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them (Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24). |
- search:
1 Chronicles 15:12-13 And said unto them, Ye [are] the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, [both] ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto [the place that] I have prepared for it. ... For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
Job 11:13-15 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; ... For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
Job 34:31-32 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]: ... [That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Psalms 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms 119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Psalms 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: ... And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Haggai 1:5-9 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. ... Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.
1 Corinthians 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
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?
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- turn:
Deuteronomy 4:30 When 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;
2 Chronicles 30:6 So 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.
2 Chronicles 30:9 For 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.
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.
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.
Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Hosea 14:1-3 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. ... Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
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: ... And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Zechariah 1:3-4 Therefore 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. ... Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and [from] your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
Acts 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and [then] to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
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