Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
Cross References
Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
Psalms 28:2Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Psalms 86:4Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
Psalms 141:2May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and 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 →