11 translations · Hebrew
Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:40 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
- KJV King James Version
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- We search our ways, and investigate, || And turn back to YHWH.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- We should look at ourselves, examine what we're doing, and return to the Lord.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| נַחְפְּשָׂ֤ה | naḥ·pə·śāh | Let us examine | H2664 חָפַשׂ to search |
| דְרָכֵ֙ינוּ֙ | ḏə·rā·ḵê·nū | our ways | H1870 דֶּ֫רֶךְ way: conduct |
| וְֽנַחְקֹ֔רָה | wə·naḥ·qō·rāh | and test | H2713 חָקַר to search |
| וְנָשׁ֖וּבָה | wə·nā·šū·ḇāh | and turn back | H7725 שׁוּב to return: return |
| עַד־ | ‘aḏ- | to | H5704 עַד till |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
Related verses
- 2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
- Psalm 139:23–24
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
- Joel 2:12–13
“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
- Psalm 4:4
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
- Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
- Psalm 119:59
I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
- Haggai 1:5–9
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways. You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.” This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways. …
- Hosea 6:1
“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
- Hosea 14:1–3
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls. Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
Read all of Lamentations 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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