Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Let us search through and investigate our ways, and let us return to the Lord.
42We have indeed transgressed and rebelled: thou hast truly not pardoned.
Cross References
Job 11:13If thou truly direct [aright] thy heart, and spread 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 the most holy place of thy sanctuary.
Psalms 86:4Cause to rejoice the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift my soul.
Psalms 141:2May my prayer be valued as incense before thee, the lifting up of my hands, as the evening offering.
Isaiah 57:15For thus hath said the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, In the high and holy place do I dwell, yet also with the contrite and humble of 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 →