Lamentations 3:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Lamentations 3:40 —

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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?
Psalms 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: …
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: …
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.

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Contrition Conviction Depravity of Man God Guilt Penitence Penitent Popular Sins

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 37-41)

That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the Lam. 3:21-36, and may taste the sweetness of them, we have here the duties of an afflicted state prescribed to us, in the performance of which we may expect those comforts. I. We must see and acknowledge the hand of God in all the calamities that befal us at any time, whether personal or public, Lam. 3:37, 38. This is her…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

40-42. 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 (Psa 139:23, 24).