The Meaning of Lamentations 3:40 Explained

Lamentations 3:40

KJV: Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

YLT: We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

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

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

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Lamentations 3:40 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 3

1  The prophet bewails his own calamities
22  By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37  He acknowledges God's justice
55  He prays for deliverance
64  And vengeance on his enemies

What do the individual words in Lamentations 3:40 mean?

let us search out our ways and examine and turn back to Yahweh
נַחְפְּשָׂ֤ה דְרָכֵ֙ינוּ֙ וְֽנַחְקֹ֔רָה וְנָשׁ֖וּבָה עַד־ יְהוָֽה

נַחְפְּשָׂ֤ה  let  us  search  out 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common plural
Root: חָפַשׂ  
Sense: to search, search for, to search out, disguise oneself.
דְרָכֵ֙ינוּ֙  our  ways 
Parse: Noun, common plural construct, first person common plural
Root: דֶּרֶךְ  
Sense: way, road, distance, journey, manner.
וְֽנַחְקֹ֔רָה  and  examine 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative, first person common plural
Root: חָקַר  
Sense: to search, search for, search out, examine, investigate.
וְנָשׁ֖וּבָה  and  turn  back 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative, first person common plural
Root: שׁוּב  
Sense: to return, turn back.
יְהוָֽה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.