'Hands' in the Bible

"As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident -- who carry their god in their hands.

Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands."

It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;

Moreover, the strength of their hands -- what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God."

With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

Yes, wild dogs surround me -- a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!

If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

For the music director; by the Korahites; a psalm. All you nations, clap your hands! Shout out to God in celebration!

For this reason I will praise you while I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.

It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.

My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O Lord, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.

They will lift you up in their hands, so you will not slip and fall on a stone.

The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

Let the rivers clap their hands! Let the mountains sing in unison

hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.

I will lift my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

(Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.

Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and praise the Lord!

May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!

I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.

By David. The Lord, my protector, deserves praise -- the one who trains my hands for battle, and my fingers for war,

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

The one who puts up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands will be secure.

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

Every wise woman builds her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

The one who lacks wisdom strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.

"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,

She obtains wool and flax, and she is pleased to work with her hands.

Her hands take hold of the distaff, and her hands grasp the spindle.

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor.

The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.

Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil and chasing the wind.

Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell the priest, "It was a mistake!" Why make God angry at you so that he would destroy the work of your hands?"

I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter's snare; her heart is like a hunter's net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

I arose to open for my beloved; my hands dripped with myrrh -- my fingers flowed with myrrh on the handles of the lock.

The Lover to His Beloved: How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O nobleman's daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a master craftsman.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.

Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.

They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

The Lord who commands armies will pronounce a blessing over the earth, saying, "Blessed be my people, Egypt, and the work of my hands, Assyria, and my special possession, Israel!"

Moab will spread out its hands in the middle of it, just as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim; the Lord will bring down Moab's pride as it spreads its hands.

For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.

Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!

They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.

This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come: "How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!

I made the earth, I created the people who live on it. It was me -- my hands stretched out the sky, I give orders to all the heavenly lights.

Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

He sees there is no advocate; he is shocked that no one intervenes. So he takes matters into his own hands; his desire for justice drives him on.

I spread out my hands all day long to my rebellious people, who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable, and who did what they desired.

In this way I will pass sentence on the people of Jerusalem and Judah because of all their wickedness. For they rejected me and offered sacrifices to other gods, worshiping what they made with their own hands."

Moreover, you will come away from Egypt with your hands covering your faces in sorrow and shame because the Lord will not allow your reliance on them to be successful and you will not gain any help from them.

The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.

They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.

Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

"I, the Lord, say: 'O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter's hand.'

In this place I will thwart the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword at the hands of their enemies. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat.

The Lord says, "The people of Israel who survived death at the hands of the enemy will find favor in the wilderness as they journey to find rest for themselves.

Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city in order to capture it. War, starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. Lord, you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.

The city is sure to fall into the hands of the Babylonians. Yet, in spite of this, you, Lord God, have said to me, "Buy that field with silver and have the transaction legally witnessed."'"

"You and your people are right in saying, 'War, starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.' But now I, the Lord God of Israel, have something further to say about this city:

For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.

Shout the battle cry from all around the city. She will throw up her hands in surrender. Her towers will fall. Her walls will be torn down. Because I, the Lord, am wreaking revenge, take out your vengeance on her! Do to her as she has done!

(Pe) Zion spread out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord has issued a decree against Jacob; his neighbors have become his enemies. Jerusalem has become like filthy garbage in their midst.

(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem. "Ha! Is this the city they called 'The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!'?"

(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner.

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:

(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.

They had human hands under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, "Ah!" because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence.

All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.

The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!"

The Lord said to the man dressed in linen, "Go between the wheelwork underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city." He went as I watched.

Then one of the cherubim stretched out his hand toward the fire which was among the cherubim. He took some and put it into the hands of the man dressed in linen, who took it and left.

(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)

along with their entire bodies, their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

Each had four faces; each had four wings and the form of human hands under the wings.

So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage on my shoulder while they watched.

I will tear off your headbands and rescue my people from your power; they will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.