Lamentations 3:40
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.”
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Read Lamentations 3:40 in the flow of Lamentations3 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Lamentations3 to see the surrounding context.
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“Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:40 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 4:30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
- 1 Chronicles 15:12And he said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
- 2 Chronicles 30:6So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
- 2 Chronicles 30:9For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”
- Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
- Job 34:31Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
- Psalms 4:4Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
- Psalms 119:59I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
- Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
- Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
- Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Hosea 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
- Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- Hosea 12:6But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
- Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
- Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
- Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Haggai 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Zechariah 1:3So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
- Acts 26:20First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
- 1 Corinthians 11:28Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
- 1 Corinthians 11:31Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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