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Lamentations 3:41

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Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
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  1. Psalms 25:1Rank 1 from verse 41
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    1UNTO thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

  2. Psalms 28:2Rank 2 from verse 41
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    2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

  3. Psalms 143:6–8Rank 3 from verse 41
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    6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

    7Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

    8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

  4. Psalms 86:4Rank 4 from verse 41
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    4Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

  5. 1 Thessalonians 2:8Rank 5 from verse 41
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    8So 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.

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Lamentations 3:41

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lift

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Sense 1: To raise, bear up, or elevate physically. Sense 2: To direct upward or raise in expression, as the eyes, hands, voice, soul, prayer, or countenance. Sense 3: To exalt, restore, strengthen, or raise in condition or honour. Sense 4: To raise or wield against, as a hand, tool, weapon, or standard. Sense 5: In lift from off, to remove or take away.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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hands

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Sense 1: The end parts of the arms used for holding and working. Sense 2: Figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

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42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

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