Lamentations 3:40

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38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That ^awoe and well-being proceed?

39 ^aWhy should a living man¹ complain,
^bA man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;

41 ^aLet us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.

42 ^aWe have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.

43 You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.

44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
That prayer should not pass through.

45 You have made us an ^aoffscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.

46 ^aAll our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.

47 ^aFear and a snare have come upon us,
^bDesolation and destruction.

48 ^aMy eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 ^aMy eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Lamentations 3:40

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.

Lamentations 3:46, Lamentations 3:47, Lamentations 3:48, beginning with phe , should, as to the order of the alphabet, follow Lamentations 3:49, Lamentations 3:50, Lamentations 3:51, which begin with ain , which in its grammatical position precedes the former.

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