Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens!
Noyes Bible
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; we have rebelled; thou hast not forgiven!
Cross References
Job 11:13If thou direct thy heart, And stretch out thy hands, toward him;
Psalms 28:2Hear the voice of my supplication, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands to thy most holy sanctuary!
Psalms 86:4Revive the soul of thy servant, For to thee, O Lord! do I lift up my soul!
Psalms 141:2Let my prayer come before thee as incense, And 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 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 →