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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:40 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Let us search
chaphas (Hebrew #2664)
to seek; causatively, to conceal oneself (i.e. let be sought), or mask
KJV usage: change, (make) diligent (search), disquise self, hide, search (for, out).
Pronounce: khaw-fas'
Origin: a primitive root
a and try
chaqar (Hebrew #2713)
properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately
KJV usage: find out, (make) search (out), seek (out), sound, try.
Pronounce: khaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
our ways
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
, and turn again
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
to the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Hag. 1:5,7• 5And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
 7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways. (Hag. 1:5,7)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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search.
1 Chron. 15:12‑13• 12and he said to them, Ye are the chief fathers of the Levites; hallow yourselves, ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.
 13For because ye did it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. (1 Chron. 15:12‑13)
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Job 11:13‑15• 13If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
 14If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
 15Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear: (Job 11:13‑15)
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Job 34:31‑32• 31For hath he said unto *God, I bear chastisement, I will not offend;
 32What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more? (Job 34:31‑32)
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Psa. 4:4• 4Be moved with anger, and sin not; meditate in your own hearts upon your bed, and be still. Selah. (Psa. 4:4)
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Psa. 119:59• 59I have thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. (Psa. 119:59)
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Psa. 139:23‑24• 23Search me, O *God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
 24And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psa. 139:23‑24)
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Ezek. 18:28• 28Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die. (Ezek. 18:28)
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Hag. 1:5‑9• 5And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
 6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.
 7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
 8Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.
 9Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house. (Hag. 1:5‑9)
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1 Cor. 11:28,31• 28But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
 31But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged. (1 Cor. 11:28,31)
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2 Cor. 13:5• 5examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates? (2 Cor. 13:5)
turn.
Deut. 4:30• 30In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice, (Deut. 4:30)
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2 Chron. 30:6,9• 6And the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
 9For if ye return to Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion with those that have carried them captive, so that they shall come again unto this land; for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return to him. (2 Chron. 30:6,9)
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Isa. 55:7• 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isa. 55:7)
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Hos. 6:1• 1Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. (Hos. 6:1)
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Hos. 12:6• 6And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. (Hos. 12:6)
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Hos. 14:1‑3• 1O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
 2Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.
 3Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Thou art our God; because in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. (Hos. 14:1‑3)
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Joel 2:12‑13• 12Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;
 13and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. (Joel 2:12‑13)
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Zech. 1:3‑4• 3And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.
 4Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings; but they did not hearken nor attend unto me, saith Jehovah. (Zech. 1:3‑4)
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Acts 26:20• 20but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. (Acts 26:20)
• In verses 40-42 self-judgment is the word of exhortation. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 3:22-42” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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