Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our heart, to the opened palms, to the Mighty One in the heavens;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40Let us search out our ways, and examine them well, and let us return unto Yahweh;
42We, have trespassed and rebelled, Thou, hast not pardoned.
Cross References
Job 11:13If, thou, hast prepared thy heart, and wilt spread forth, unto him, thy hands—
Psalms 28:2Hear the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee for help, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy shrine.
Psalms 86:4Rejoice the soul of thy servant, For, unto thee, O My Lord, my soul, do I lift.
Psalms 141:2Let my prayer be set in order like incense before thee,—the lifting up of my hands, as the evening gift.
Isaiah 57:15For, thus, saith he that is high and lifted up—Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and To revive the heart of them who are crushed;—
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 →