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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:40 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 3:40 |
Strong Concordance |
Let us search [02664] and try [02713] our ways [01870], and turn again [07725] to the LORD [03068]. |
| |
King James |
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
us--Jeremiah and his fellow countrymen in their calamity.
search--as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them (Psa 139:23-24). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them.
Lam 3:40
And turn again to the Lord - Or, "and return to Yahweh." The prep. (to) in the Hebrew implies not half way, but the whole.
Lam 3:41
Literally, "Let us lift up our heart unto our hands unto God in heaven;" as if the heart first lifted up the hands, and then with them mounted up in prayer to God. In real prayer the outward expression is caused by the emotion stirring within. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Confession of sins, and complaint against the cruelty of enemies, as well as over the deep misery into which all the people have sunk. Lam 3:40-42. The acknowledgment of guilt implies to prayer, to which also there is a summons in Lam 3:40, Lam 3:41. The transitional idea is not, "Instead of grumbling in a sinful spirit, let us rather examine our conduct" (Thenius); for the summons to examine one's conduct is thereby placed in contrast with Lam 3:39, and the thought, "let every one mourn over his own sins," transformed into a prohibition of sinful complaint. The real transition link is given by Rosenmller: quum mala nostra a peccatis nostris oriantur, culpas nostras et scrutemur et corrigamus. The searching of our ways, i.e., of our conduct, if it be entered on in an earnest spirit, must end in a return to the Lord, from whom we have departed. It is self-evident that עד יהוה does not stand for אל יי, but means as far as (even to) Jahveh, and indicates thorough conversion - no standing half-way. The lifting up of the heart to the hands, also, - not merely of the hands to God, - expresses earnest prayer, that comes from the heart. אל־כּפּים, to the hands (that are raised towards heaven). "To God in heaven," where His almighty throne is placed (Psa 2:4), that He may look down from thence (Lam 3:59) and send help. With Lam 3:42 begins the prayer, as is shown by the direct address to God in the second member. There is no need, however, on this account, for supplying לאמר before the first member; the command to pray is immediately followed by prayer, beginning with the confession of sins, and the recognition of God's chastisement; cf. Psa 106:6; Dan 9:5. נחנוּ is contrasted with אתּה. "Thou hast not pardoned," because Thy justice must inflict punishment. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Let us search - How are we to get the pardon of our sins? The prophet tells us:
1. Let us examine ourselves.
2. "Let us turn again to the Lord."
3. "Let us lift up our heart;" let us make fervent prayer and supplication for mercy.
4. "Let us lift up our hand;" let us solemnly promise to be his, and bind ourselves in a covenant to be the Lord's only: so much lifting up the hand to God implies. Or, let us put our heart on our hand, and offer it to God; so some have translated this clause.
5. "We have transgressed;" let our confession of sin be fervent and sincere.
6. And to us who profess Christianity it may be added, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as having died for thee; and thou shalt not perish, but have everlasting life.
Lam 3:46, Lam 3:47, Lam 3:48, beginning with פ phe, should, as to the order of the alphabet, follow Lam 3:49, Lam 3:50, Lam 3:51, which begin with ע ain, which in its grammatical position precedes the former. |
23 Search [02713] me, O God [0410], and know [03045] my heart [03824]: try [0974] me, and know [03045] my thoughts [08312]:
24 And see [07200] if there be any wicked [06090] way [01870] in me, and lead [05148] me in the way [01870] everlasting [05769].
41 Let us lift up [05375] our heart [03824] with our hands [03709] unto God [0410] in the heavens [08064].
40 Let us search [02664] and try [02713] our ways [01870], and turn again [07725] to the LORD [03068].
5 We have sinned [02398], and have committed iniquity [05753], and have done wickedly [07561], and have rebelled [04775], even by departing [05493] from thy precepts [04687] and from thy judgments [04941]:
6 We have sinned [02398] with our fathers [01], we have committed iniquity [05753], we have done wickedly [07561].
42 We [05168] have transgressed [06586] and have rebelled [04784]: thou hast not pardoned [05545].
59 O LORD [03068], thou hast seen [07200] my wrong [05792]: judge [08199] thou my cause [04941].
4 He that sitteth [03427] in the heavens [08064] shall laugh [07832]: the Lord [0136] shall have them in derision [03932].
39 Wherefore doth a living [02416] man [0120] complain [0596], a man [01397] for the punishment of his sins [02399]?
41 Let us lift up [05375] our heart [03824] with our hands [03709] unto God [0410] in the heavens [08064].
40 Let us search [02664] and try [02713] our ways [01870], and turn again [07725] to the LORD [03068].
40 Let us search [02664] and try [02713] our ways [01870], and turn again [07725] to the LORD [03068].
41 Let us lift up [05375] our heart [03824] with our hands [03709] unto God [0410] in the heavens [08064].
42 We [05168] have transgressed [06586] and have rebelled [04784]: thou hast not pardoned [05545].
51 Mine eye [05869] affecteth [05953] mine heart [05315] because of all the daughters [01323] of my city [05892].
50 Till the LORD [03068] look down [08259], and behold [07200] from heaven [08064].
49 Mine eye [05869] trickleth down [05064], and ceaseth [01820] not, without any intermission [02014],
48 Mine eye [05869] runneth down [03381] with rivers [06388] of water [04325] for the destruction [07667] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971].
47 Fear [06343] and a snare [06354] is come upon us, desolation [07612] and destruction [07667].
46 All our enemies [0341] have opened [06475] their mouths [06310] against us.