'Lifted' in the Bible

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.

Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.

The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.

Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth.

My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.

Make clear that strength is God's: he is lifted up over Israel, and his power is in the clouds.

Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.

In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up.

Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.

For you, Lord, are most high over the earth; you are lifted up over all other gods.

He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.

The right hand of the Lord is lifted up; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?

To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?

Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.

The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?

The man of pride, lifted up in soul, is named high-hearted; he is acting in an outburst of pride.

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.

There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!

And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.

The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;

And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.

In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.

And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.

And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.

And in that day you will say, Give praise to the Lord, let his name be honoured, give word of his doings among the peoples, say that his name is lifted up.

That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.

All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.

For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.

Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.

The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.

Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.

Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,

Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways will be lifted up.

Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.

Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?

It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.

Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.

Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?

But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will never be put out.

For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.

Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?

Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.

Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;

We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.

Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.

Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.

Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.

And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.

In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

And when the living beings went on, the wheels went by their side; and when the living beings were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

Wherever the spirit was to go they went; and the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

When these went on, the others went; and when these came to rest, the others came to rest; and when these were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the sound of a great rushing came to my ears when the glory of the Lord was lifted up from his place.

Violent behaviour has been lifted up into a rod of evil; it will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.

Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.

And when the winged ones went, the wheels went by their side: and when their wings were lifted to take them up from the earth, the wheels were not turned from their side.

When they were at rest in their place, these were at rest; when they were lifted up, these went up with them: for the spirit of life was in them.