Lamentations 3:41
We lift up our heart on the hands to God in the heavens.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40We search our ways, and investigate, || And turn back to YHWH.
42We have transgressed and been rebellious, || You have not forgiven.
Cross References
Job 11:13If you have prepared your heart, || And have spread out your hands to Him,
Psalms 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications, || In my crying to You, || In my lifting up my hands toward your holy oracle.
Psalms 86:4Make glad the soul of Your servant, || For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
Psalms 141:2My prayer is prepared—incense before You, || The lifting up of my hands—the evening present.
Isaiah 57:15For thus said the high and exalted One, || Inhabiting eternity, and His Name [is] holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, || And with the bruised and humble of spirit, || To revive the spirit of the humble, || And to revive the heart of bruised ones,
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 →