Lamentations 3:41
Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
42Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
Cross References
Job 11:13Rut thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.
Psalms 28:2Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.
Psalms 86:4Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.
Psalms 141:2Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.
Isaiah 57:15For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite 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 →