Lamentations 3:40
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Lamentations 3:40 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Lamentations 3:40 is a verse from the book of Lamentations in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Lamentations 3:40 — KJV
“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.”
— Lamentations 3:40 (KJV)
Lamentations 3:40 in Context — About the Book of Lamentations
Lamentations is five funeral poems over fallen Jerusalem — grief given holy structure. At its exact center burns the flame the darkness never reaches: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed; His mercies are new every morning. It teaches us to grieve with hope.
Cross-References for Lamentations 3:40
“Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:40: let, turn, again
“Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. by: Heb. by the hand of”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:40: ways, turn, again
“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. from: Heb. from the hand”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:40: let, turn, again
“I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:40: let, turn, again
“Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:40: let, turn, again
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