Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up levavenu (our heart) with our hands 1 unto El baShomayim. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 test derakheinu (our ways), 1 and let us turn again to Hashem. 1
42We have transgressed and have rebelled; 1 Atah lo salachta (Thou hast not pardoned, forgiven). 1
Cross References
Job 11:13If thou direct thine lev, 1 and stretch out thine hands to Him, 1
Psalms 28:2Shema (hear) kol (voice) of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, 1 when I lift up my hands toward Thy Devir Kodesh 1 (Innermost Sanctuary, Kodesh HaKodashim). 1
Psalms 86:4Samei'ach (rejoice) the nefesh of Thy eved; 1 for unto Thee, Adonoi, do I lift up my nefesh. 1
Psalms 141:2Let my tefillah be set forth before Thee like ketoret; 1 and the lifting up of my hands as the minchat erev. 1
Isaiah 57:15For thus saith the High and Exalted, 1 Shokhen Ad (the One Who abideth forever, i.e., Who inhabits eternity), Kadosh Shmo: 1 I dwell in marom v'kadosh (the high and holy place), 1 with him also that is of a contrite and lowly ruach, 1 to revive the ruach of the shefalim (humble, lowly ones) 1 and to revive the lev nidka'im (contrite of heart). 1
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 →