Bible Lynx Logo

The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 3, Verse 40

View Previous Verses
39
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
King James Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
American Standard Version
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
New English Translation
נ(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD.
World English Bible
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
41
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.
42
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.
45
Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.