lifting hands
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8Therefore, I want men to pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger or dissension.
5So will I bless you in my life, and I will lift up my hands in your name.
2In the nights, lift up your hands in sanctity, and bless the Lord.
41NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
2Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
2Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.
6And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people responded, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed down, and they adored God, facing the ground.
48And I lifted up my hands to your commandments, which I loved. And I was trained in your justifications.
5And at the evening sacrifice, I rose up from my affliction, and, having torn my cloak and my tunic, I fell to my knees, and I reached out my hands to the Lord, my God.
50Then he led them out as far as Bethania. And lifting up his hands, he blessed them.
19COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and he extended his hands toward heaven.
54And it happened that, when Solomon had completed praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he rose up from the sight of the altar of the Lord. For he had fixed both knees upon the ground, and he had extended his hands toward heaven.
11And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel prevailed. But when he released them a little while, Amalek overcame.