Lamentations 3:40

The right response to suffering is to examine our ways and turn back to the Lord in repentance.

Cross-references · 21

• 2 Cor 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
• Ps 139:23–24Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
• Joel 2:12–13“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
• Ps 119:59I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
• Hag 1:5–9Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
• Hos 6:1“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
• Hos 14:1–3Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
• 1 Cor 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
• 2 Chr 30:9For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
• 1 Cor 11:31For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
• 2 Chr 30:6So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
• Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
• Deut 4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
• Zech 1:3–4Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
• Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
• Job 34:31–32“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
• Job 11:13–15“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
• Hos 12:6Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
• 1 Chr 15:12–13and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.

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