Lamentations 3:40-42
What is written? (ESV)
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord! Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.
What does it say?
Plea to evaluate one’s actions and return to the Lord by turning your attention (heart) up toward Him. We have disobeyed and rebelled, and He has not forgiven.
What is its immediate context?
Jeremiah’s lament of God’s punishment of the people of Judah/Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians. He is pleading to God on behalf of the people.
How Lamentations 3:40-42 is applied across Bible answers
Should you follow your heart?
It demonstrates the principle declared by God in the previous passage1; we must test "our ways" against what God has said.
