40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
40 Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
40 Let's take a good look at the way we're living and reorder our lives under God.
40 Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord;
40 Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Lamentations 3:40
Commentary on Lamentations 3:37-41
(Read Lamentations 3:37-41)
While there is life there is hope; and instead of complaining that things are bad, we should encourage ourselves with the hope they will be better. We are sinful men, and what we complain of, is far less than our sins deserve. We should complain to God, and not of him. We are apt, in times of calamity, to reflect on other people's ways, and blame them; but our duty is to search and try our own ways, that we may turn from evil to God. Our hearts must go with our prayers. If inward impressions do not answer to outward expressions, we mock God, and deceive ourselves.