Lamentations 3:41
in Lamentations 3Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
KJV
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseWe must pray to him, with a believing expectation to receive mercy from him; for that is implied in our lifting up our hands to him (a gesture commonly used in prayer and sometimes put for it, as Ps. cxli. 2 , Let the lifting up of my hands be as the evening sacrifice ); it signifies our requesting mercy from him and our readiness to receive that mercy.
This site's exposition
Let us search and try our ways
on Lamentations 3:40-42
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord marks the chapter's turn from the individual voice to the whole community, the man's own confession becoming a summons the people can take up together. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens pairs inward examination with outward gesture, the hands lifted matching the heart searched. We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned states the confession in its plainest form, and the bench notes the honesty of the last clause, the community naming its sin without yet claiming the forgiveness the chapter's center already declared for the man who spoke first.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נִשָּׂ֤א | nisa' | let us lift up | H5375 → | 656 times |
| לְבָבֵ֙נוּ֙ | levavenu | heart our | H3824 → | |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| כַּפָּ֔יִם | kapayim | palms | H3709 → | 192 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| אֵ֖ל | ʾel | God | H410 → | |
| בַּשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ | bashamayim | in the heavens | H8064 → | 421 times |
נִשָּׂ֤אlet us lift up
nisa'H5375 →656 times
לְבָבֵ֙נוּ֙heart our
levavenuH3824 →
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
כַּפָּ֔יִםpalms
kapayimH3709 →192 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
אֵ֖לGod
ʾelH410 →
בַּשָּׁמָֽיִם׃in the heavens
bashamayimH8064 →421 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 25:1To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
it leads to
- Psalms 143:8
Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 86:4
Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
- Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
- Psalms 143:8
Through
Psalms 141:2May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
it leads to
- 1 Timothy 2:8
Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 8:3–4
Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before…
- Revelation 5:8
When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which…
- Daniel 9:21
while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
- Malachi 1:11
For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name…
- 1 Timothy 2:8
Where this verse is studied
2 studies on this verseOn Lamentations 3:41
Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Lamentations 3:22–24 · MannaFest
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About Lamentations

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
