Lamentations 3:40

New English Translation

Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read: “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The Lord your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you if you return to him.”

Psalm 119:59

I consider my actions and follow your rules.

Psalm 4:4

Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)

Isaiah 55:7

The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

Hosea 12:6

But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.

Hosea 5:15

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

Hosea 6:1

“Come on! Let’s return to the Lord! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!

Acts 26:20

but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.

1 Corinthians 11:28

A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

1 Corinthians 11:31

But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.

2 Corinthians 13:5

Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless, indeed, you fail the test!

Deuteronomy 4:30

In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him