Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. Let us - Jeremiah and his fellow-countrymen in their calamity.
Search - as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them. God must search us, if we are to be enabled to search ourselves and our ways. "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalms 139:23-24). Verse 41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands - the antidote to hypocrisy (Psalms 86:4; 1 Timothy 2:8). Verse 42. Thou hast not pardoned. The Babylonian captivity had not yet ended.
[Samech (c)]