Lamentations 3:41
We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
In Context
40We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
42We — we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou — Thou hast not forgiven.
Cross References
Job 11:13If thou — thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,
Psalms 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Psalms 86:4Rejoice the soul of Thy servant, For unto Thee, O Lord, my soul I lift up.
Psalms 141:2My prayer is prepared — incense before Thee, The lifting up of my hands — the evening present.
Isaiah 57:15For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy [is] His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
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 →