Lamentations 3:41
NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
42NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.
Cross References
Job 11:13But you have fortified your heart and extended your hands to him.
Psalms 28:2Bring to the Lord, glory and honor. Bring to the Lord, glory for his name. Adore the Lord in his holy court.
Psalms 86:4I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.
Psalms 141:2With my voice, I cried out to the Lord. With my voice, I made supplication to the Lord.
Isaiah 57:15For this is said by the Most High, the Sublime One, who dwells in eternity. And his name is Holy, for he dwells in the exalted and holy place, and he acts with a restrained and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →