'Lifting' in the Bible

Then Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God, and all of the people answered, "Amen! Amen!" while lifting their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped Yahweh [with their] noses to the ground.

For [it is] not from [the] east or [the] west and not from [the] south [that] lifting up [comes],

Let my prayer be set before you [as] incense, the lifting up of my palms [as the] evening offering.

{And then} on that day I will make Jerusalem a stone weight for all the peoples. All those lifting it up will grievously hurt themselves, and all the nations of the earth will assemble against it.