'Lifted' in the Bible

Then Esau implored his father, "Don't you have even one blessing for me, my father? Bless me, even me too, my father!" Then Esau lifted his voice and wept bitterly.

On the third day, which just happened to be Pharaoh's birthday, he threw a party for all his servants. He lifted the head of both his senior security advisor and of his head chef in front of his servants

Whenever the cloud was lifted up from the tent, the Israelis would set out on their journey,

but if the cloud was not lifted up, they would not set out until it was lifted up,

On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, the cloud was lifted up from the Tent of Meeting,

So he went up to Mount Zalmon, accompanied by his entire army. Abimelech had an axe in his hand, so he cut down a branch from a tree, lifted it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he told the army that had accompanied him, "You've seen what I just did. Hurry up! Do the same thing!"

Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and cried until they had no more strength left to cry.

Who are you reproaching and blaspheming? Against whom have you raised your voice? And against whom have you lifted up your eyes in arrogance? Against the Holy One of Israel!

As soon as all of Israel's elders had arrived, the descendants of Levi lifted the ark

Lift up your heads, gates! Be lifted up, ancient doors, so the King of Glory may come in.

Lift up your heads, gates! Be lifted up, ancient doors, so the King of Glory may come in.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies, even those who surround me. I will sacrifice in his tent with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melodies to the LORD.

I exalt you, LORD, for you have lifted me up, and my enemies could not gloat over me.

If we had forgotten the name of our God or lifted our hands to a foreign god,

I will cut down the strength of the wicked, but the strength of the righteous will be lifted up. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.

The rivers have flooded, LORD; the rivers have spoken aloud, the rivers have lifted up their crushing waves.

because of your indignation and wrath, when you lifted and threw me away.

Yet he lifted the needy from affliction and made them families like a flock.

Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is lifted up; his majesty transcends earth and heaven.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower; a righteous person rushes to it and is lifted up above the danger.

"LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. And let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame yes, let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them!

"Now I'll rise up," the LORD has said, "now I'll exalt myself; now I'll be lifted up.

Whom have you insulted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be lowered; the rough ground will become level, and the mountain ridges made a plain.

"Look! My servant will prosper, and he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

In all their distress he wasn't distressed, but the angel of his presence saved them; in his acts of love and in his acts of pity he redeemed them; he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

When you say to yourselves, "Why have all these things happened to me?' It's because of the extent of your iniquity that your skirt has been lifted up, and your heels have suffered violence.

"From the cry of Heshbon, to Elealeh, to Jahaz they have lifted up their voice. From Zoar to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah, even the waters of Nimrim will become a desolate place.

We tried to heal Babylon, but she wouldn't be healed. Leave her, and let each of us go to his own country. For her judgment has reached to the heavens, and is lifted up to the sky.

Whatever direction these spirits went, the wheels would be lifted up along with them, because the wheels were alive.

Then the Spirit lifted me up and I heard a great earthquake behind me and the glory of the LORD arose from his place,

Then the Spirit lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly with an angry attitude as the hand of the LORD rested on me.

The form of a hand reached out and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, brought me toward Jerusalem, and in visions that came from God took me through the doors of the inner gate that faced north, where an image that provoked God's jealous anger had been erected.

The cherubim lifted their wings and rose above the earth while I watched. They went out, along with their wheels, and stood at the entrance to the east gate of the LORD's Temple as the glory of Israel's God remained above, covering them.

The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east facing gate of the LORD's Temple. At the entrance of the gate I saw 25 men. Included among them were Azzur's son Jaazaniah and Benaiah's son Pelatiah, who were princes of the people.

Then in a vision from the Spirit of God, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Chaldea. At that point, the vision that I had been observing ended.

Just then, the Spirit lifted me up and carried me into the inner courtyard, where the glory of the LORD was filling the Temple!

"When that period of time was over, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven and my sanity returned to me. I blessed the Most High, praising and honoring the one who lives forever: For his sovereignty is eternal, and his kingdom continues from generation to generation.

The first resembled a lion, but it had eagles' wings. I continued to watch until its wings were plucked off, it was lifted up off the ground, and it was forced to stand on two feet like a man. A human soul was imparted to it.

I lifted up my eyes to look, and to my surprise, there was a certain man dressed in linen, whose waist was encircled with gold from Uphaz!

"All of a sudden, a hand touched me and lifted me upon my hands and knees.

"I heard the man dressed in linen clothes, who was standing above the waters of the river as he lifted his right and left hands to heaven and swore by the one who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and a half. When the shattering of the power of the holy people has occurred, all these things will conclude."

Look, a round lead cover was being lifted, and there was one woman seated inside the basket!

"And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hell! Because if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

I tell all of you with certainty, if anyone says to this mountain, "Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' if he doesn't doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

He pulled powerful rulers from their thrones and lifted up humble people.

And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hell!

Later, he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself."

Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Now lifted up by God to heaven, a name above all others given, this matchless name possessing.