21 Bible Verses about Lifting Hands

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.

So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

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

When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

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

‘Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,

So I will 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 supplications when I cry to You for help,
When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

May 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 because of hunger
At the head of every street.”

We lift up our heart and hands
Toward God in heaven;

But at the evening offering I arose from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the Lord my God;

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time; and as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these events will be completed.

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

The mountains saw You and quaked;
The downpour of waters swept by.
The deep uttered forth its voice,
It lifted high its hands.

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

Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven,