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39 What should the living complain about?
    about their sins!

40 [a]Let us search and examine our ways,
    and return to the Lord!(A)
41 Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands
    toward God in heaven!

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Footnotes

  1. 3:40–66 The plural voice in this lament suggests that a communal lament begins here; it then continues in the singular voice in vv. 55–66.

39 Why should the living complain
    when punished for their sins?(A)

40 Let us examine our ways and test them,(B)
    and let us return to the Lord.(C)
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
    to God in heaven,(D) and say:

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