New Living Translation
Lamentations 3:41
41Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven and say,
Lamentations 3:41 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
- New International Version (NIV)Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.
Context of Lamentations 3:41
39Then why should we, mere humans, complain when we are punished for our sins? 40Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord. Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven and say, 42“We have sinned and rebelled, and you have not forgiven us. 43“You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down, and slaughtered us without mercy.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:41 word by word
נִשָּׂ֤א לְבָבֵ֙נוּ֙ אֶל־כַּפָּ֔יִם אֶל־אֵ֖ל בַּשָּׁמָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:41
- Psalms 25:1O Lord, I give my life to you.
- Psalms 86:4Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you.
- Psalms 143:6I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude
- Psalms 28:2Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
- Psalms 63:4I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer.
- Psalms 141:2Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:8We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:41
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 40-42Verses 40-42 The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them. Lamentations 3:40 And turn again to the Lord - Or, “and return to Yahweh.” The prep. (to) in the Hebrew implies not half way, but the whole. Lamentations 3:41 Literally, “Let us lift up our heart unto our hands unto God in heaven;” as if the heart first lifted up the hands, and then with them mounted up in prayer to God. In real prayer the outward expression is caused by the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 37-41Verses 37-41 While there is life there is hope; and instead of complaining that things are bad, we should encourage ourselves with the hope they will be better. We are sinful men, and what we complain of, is far less than our sins deserve. We should complain to God, and not of him. We are apt, in times of calamity, to reflect on other people's ways, and blame them; but our duty is to search and try our own ways, that we may turn from evil to God. Our…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 40-42Repentance is essential for receiving salvation (Isaiah 1:27; Jeremiah 3:22; Ezekiel 3:21).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 40-4240-42. us--Jeremiah and his fellow countrymen in their calamity. search--as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them (Psa 139:23, 24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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