Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in the heavens: 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to Yahweh. 1
42“We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. 1
Cross References
Job 11:13But suppose that you had set your heart right 1 and had reached out with your hands toward God; 1
Psalms 28:2Hear the sound of my pleading when I call for help from you, 1 when I lift up my hands toward your most holy place! 1
Psalms 86:4Make your servant glad, 1 for to you, Lord, I lift up my soul. 1
Psalms 141:2May my prayer be like incense before you; 1 may my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice. 1
Isaiah 57:15For this is what the high and elevated One says, who lives eternally, whose name is holy, 1 “I live in the exalted and holy place, with him also that is of a crushed and humble spirit, 1 to revive the spirit of the humble ones, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 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 →