Lamentations 3:41
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.
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
- KJV
- Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
- WEB
- Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
- ASV
- Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
- DARBY
- Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.
- BLB
- Let us lift our heart with [our] hands to God in the heavens:
- ÅB
- La oss løfte vårt hjerte og våre hender til Gud i himmelen!
- OTB
- La oss løfte våre hjerter og løfte våre hender til Gud i himmelen;
- B1930
- La oss løfte vårt hjerte og våre hender til Gud i himmelen!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 25:1
Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
Read in contextPsalms 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Read in contextPsalms 86:4
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Read in contextPsalms 143:6–8
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:8
So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
Read in contextPsalms 63:4
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Read in contextPsalms 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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