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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
lift: Psalms 25:1, Psalms 86:4, Psalms 143:6-8
with: Psalms 28:2, Psalms 63:4, Psalms 141:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:8
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:10 - turn unto Joshua 7:13 - sanctify Judges 5:16 - great 2 Chronicles 7:14 - seek my face Nehemiah 8:6 - with lifting Psalms 134:2 - Lift up Psalms 143:8 - for I lift Hosea 6:1 - and let Joel 2:12 - turn
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands,.... Lifting up of the hands is a prayer gesture, and is put for prayer itself; see
Psalms 141:2; but the heart must go along with it, or it is of no avail; the soul must be lifted up to God; there must be an ascending of that unto him, in earnest desires after him; in affection and love to him; in faith and dependence on him; and in hope and expectation of good things from him, Psalms 25:1; this is the way in which men return to God, even by prayer and supplication. The Targum is,
"let us lift up our hearts, and cast away rapine and prey out of our hands;''
and Jarchi and Abendana mention a Midrash, that paraphrases it,
"let us lift up our hearts in truth to God, as a man washes his hands in purity, and casts away all filthiness from them;''
see Hebrews 10:22;
unto God in the heavens; who has made them, and dwells in them; and therefore prayer must be directed to him, as being there; so our Lord taught his disciples to pray, Matthew 6:9; and which is a very great encouragement to faith in prayer; when it is considered that God is the Maker and possessor of heaven and earth; and that our help is in and expected from him who made all these; and besides the saints have a High Priest, an Advocate with the Father there, to plead their cause for them; and many great and good things are there laid up for them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 emotion stirring within.
