21 Bible Verses about Lifting Hands

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger and disputing or quarreling or doubt [in their mind].

Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them, and came down [from the altar of burnt offering] after presenting the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

Now when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he lowered his hand [due to fatigue], Amalek prevailed.

Then Solomon stood [in the courtyard] before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

When Solomon finished offering this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the Lord’s altar, where he had knelt down with his hands stretched toward heaven.

Then Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands; and they knelt down and worshiped the Lord with their faces toward the ground.

‘Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say (swear an oath), as I live forever,

So will I bless You as long as I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.

And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments,
Which I love;
And I will meditate on Your statutes.

Hear the voice of my supplication (specific requests, humble entreaties) as I cry to You for help,
As I lift up my hands and heart toward Your innermost sanctuary (Holy of Holies).

Let my prayer be counted as incense before You;
The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

Lift up your hands to the sanctuary
And bless the Lord.

“Arise, cry aloud in the night,
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint from hunger
At the head of every street.”

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands [in prayer]
Toward God in heaven;

At the evening offering I arose from my [time of] humiliation and penitence and having torn my clothing and my robe, I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the Lord my God,

If I have lifted my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw [that the judges would be] my help at the [council] gate,

And I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he held up his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and a half a time (three and a half years); and as soon as they finish shattering and crushing the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.

Your hand will be lifted up against your adversaries,
And all your enemies shall be cut off and destroyed.

The mountains saw You and [they] trembled and writhed [as if in pain];
The downpour of waters swept by [as a deluge].
The deep uttered its voice and raged,
It lifted its hands high.

Then He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifted up His hands and blessed them.

Then the angel whom I had seen standing on the sea and the land raised his right hand [to swear an oath] to heaven,