Lamentations 3:40

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let us search and examine our ways and turn back to the LORD.

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  • Ps 119:59 : 59 I considered my ways and turned my feet to Your testimonies.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?
  • Job 11:13-15 : 13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him; 14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents. 15 For then you shall lift up your face without blemish; yes, you shall be steadfast and shall not fear:
  • 2 Chr 30:6 : 6 So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to you who are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  • Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up.
  • Hos 12:6 : 6 Therefore, turn to your God: keep mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.
  • Hos 14:1-3 : 1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so we will offer the sacrifice of our lips. 3 Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the orphan finds mercy.
  • Joel 2:12-13 : 12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil.
  • Hag 1:5-9 : 5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes. 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD. 9 You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.
  • Zech 1:3-4 : 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts. 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.
  • Acts 26:20 : 20 But showed first to those of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works fitting for repentance.
  • 1 Cor 11:28 : 28 But let a person examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
  • 1 Cor 11:31 : 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
  • 2 Chr 30:9 : 9 For if you turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before those that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away His face from you, if you return to Him.
  • Deut 4:30 : 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice;
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 Surely it is proper to say to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend anymore; 32 That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Stand in awe, and do not sin: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
  • 1 Chr 15:12-13 : 12 And said to them, You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it. 13 For because you did not do it at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for we did not seek Him after the due order.

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  • Lam 3:41-42
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    41 Let us lift up our heart along with our hands to God in the heavens.

    42 We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

  • 21 Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.

  • 39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  • 1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up.

  • Jonah 3:8-9
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    8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands.

    9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we do not perish?

  • 3 That the LORD your God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

  • Ps 90:12-13
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    12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

    13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

  • 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

  • 3 Turn us again, O God, and make your face shine, and we shall be saved.

  • Ps 139:23-24
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    23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;

    24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

    14 Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

  • 2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; test my mind and my heart.

  • Ps 80:18-19
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    18 So we will not turn back from you; revive us, and we will call upon your name.

    19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

  • Joel 2:12-13
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    12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

    13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil.

  • Hos 14:1-2
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    1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

    2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so we will offer the sacrifice of our lips.

  • 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • 18 Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from Your way;

  • Jer 3:21-22
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    21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

    22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.

  • 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

  • 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease.

  • 6 Therefore, turn to your God: keep mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.

  • 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

  • 1 O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You have been displeased; O turn to us again.

  • 5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • 4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

  • 37 Yet if they come to themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly;

  • 13 Therefore now amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

  • 6 Turn to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • 3 Perhaps they will listen and each man will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

  • 1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.

  • 5 We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments:

  • 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and make your face shine, and we shall be saved.

  • 17 O LORD, why have you made us to stray from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

  • 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

  • 24 O LORD, correct me, but with justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

  • 3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we did not inquire of it in the days of Saul.

  • 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice;

  • 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

  • 11 Now therefore go, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you: return now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

  • 47 Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

  • 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;