Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
42We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
Cross References
Job 11:13If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;
Psalms 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Psalms 86:4Rejoice the soul of thy servant; For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 141:2Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Isaiah 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of 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 →