Lamentations 3:41
Let vs lift vp our hearts with our handes vnto God in the heauens.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.
42We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.
Cross References
Job 11:13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:
Psalms 28:2Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.
Psalms 86:4Reioyce the soule of thy seruant: for vnto thee, O Lord, doe I lift vp my soule.
Psalms 141:2Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.
Isaiah 57:15For thus sayth he that is hie and excellent, he that inhabiteth the eternitie, whose Name is the Holy one, I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirite to reuiue the spirite of the humble, and to giue life to them that are of a contrite heart.
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 →