Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

In the sanctuary

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

General references

So the two bands of those who gave praise took up their positions in the house of God, and I and half of the chiefs with me:

Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy is unchanging for ever.