Lamentations 3:40
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Definitions for Lamentations 3:40
Clarke's Lamentations 3:40 Bible Commentary
Let us search - How are we to get the pardon of our sins? The prophet tells us:
1. Let us examine ourselves.
2. "Let us turn again to the Lord."
3. "Let us lift up our heart;" let us make fervent prayer and supplication for mercy.
4. "Let us lift up our hand;" let us solemnly promise to be his, and bind ourselves in a covenant to be the Lord's only: so much lifting up the hand to God implies. Or, let us put our heart on our hand, and offer it to God; so some have translated this clause.
5. "We have transgressed;" let our confession of sin be fervent and sincere.
6. And to us who profess Christianity it may be added, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as having died for thee; and thou shalt not perish, but have everlasting life.
Lamentations 3:46, Lamentations 3:47, Lamentations 3:48, beginning with פ phe, should, as to the order of the alphabet, follow Lamentations 3:49, Lamentations 3:50, Lamentations 3:51, which begin with ע ain, which in its grammatical position precedes the former.
Barnes's Lamentations 3:40 Bible Commentary
The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them.
Lamentations 3:40
And turn again to the Lord - Or, "and return to Yahweh." The prep. (to) in the Hebrew implies not half way, but the whole.