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Lamentations 3:40

The New Testament’s use of Lamentations

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

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

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

1 Cor 11:27-34

'Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord' parallels Paul's 'if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged' (v.31). The self-examination-averts-judgment logic is closely coherent with Lamentations' penitential exhortation.

Medium confidence
2 Cor 13:5-10 ?

'Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD' supplies a corporate self-examination motif close to Paul's command to test oneself. Volume is faint with no shared diction in Greek, so the echo is thematic. Coherence is supported by the repentance/restoration aim of the surrounding verses (perfecting, doing no evil).

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Lamentations 3
Lamentations 3:30 5