Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:40

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

Seeing God doth not grieve us willingly, nor delight to crush us though we be his Prisoners, and seeing the hand of God is in these things upon us, and that justly to recompense our iniquities into our bosoms, instead of murmuring and fretting against God, which is not reasonable, nor will be of any profit to us, Let us examine our thoughts, words and actions and consider what they have been, and reform, and turn again to the Lord, by aposta[illegible: 1 letter]izing from whom we have brought these evils upon us.