King James Version
Lamentations 3:40 in the King James Version says “Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.”
Lamentations 3:40 · KJV
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? complain: or, murmur
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Let us search”
H2664to seek; causatively, to conceal oneself (i.e., let be sought), or mask
“our ways”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“and turn again”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“to the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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