Lamentations 3:40
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Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.

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1 Chronicles 15:12,13 And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brethren, and bring the ark of the Lord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it: . . .

Job 11:13-15 But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him. . . .

Job 34:31,32 Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn. . . .

Psalm 4:4 Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.

Psalm 119:59 I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Psalm 139:23,24 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths. . . .

Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.

Haggai 1:5-9 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways. . . .

1 Corinthians 11:28,31 But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:5 Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

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Deuteronomy 4:30 After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.

2 Chronicles 30:6,9 And the posts went with letters by commandment of the king, and his princes, to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the king's orders: Ye children of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant of you that have escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians. . . .

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Hosea 6:1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

Hosea 14:1-3 Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity. . . .

Joel 2:12,13 Now, therefore, saith the Lord. Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and mourning. . . .

Zechariah 1:3,4 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Acts 26:20 But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.

Context
God's Justice
39Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? 40Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.41Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:5
Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

Psalm 119:59
I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Psalm 139:23
Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

Psalm 139:24
And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.

Lexicon
Let us examine
נַחְפְּשָׂ֤ה (naḥ·pə·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2664: To seek, to conceal oneself, mask

and test
וְֽנַחְקֹ֔רָה (wə·naḥ·qō·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2713: To penetrate, to examine intimately

our ways,
דְרָכֵ֙ינוּ֙ (ḏə·rā·ḵê·nū)
Noun - common plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

and turn back
וְנָשׁ֖וּבָה (wə·nā·šū·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


Additional Translations
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

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

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

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
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