Lamentations 3:41
Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
World Messianic 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 the LORD.
42“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
Cross References
Job 11:13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Psalms 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Psalms 86:4Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Isaiah 57:15For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
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 →