Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our hearts with our hands 1 To the lofty One in heaven. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Our way has been searched out and examined, 1 And we will turn to the Lord. 1
42We have sinned, 1 We have transgressed; 1 And thou hast not pardoned. 1
Cross References
Job 11:13For if thou hast made thy heart pure, 1 And liftest up thine hands toward him; 1
Psalms 28:2Bring to the Lord glory, due to his name; 1 Worship the Lord in his holy court. 1
Psalms 86:4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: 1 Behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: 1 These were born there. 1
Psalms 141:2I cried to the Lord with my voice; 1 With my voice I made supplication to the Lord. 1
Isaiah 57:15Thus saith the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the brokenhearted:
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 →