Holy Scripture
Lamentations 3:41
A church father on this verse
“One [Elijah] whose "heart" was habitually found "lifted up" rather than fattened up, who in forty days and as many nights maintained a fast above the power of human nature while spiritual faith supplied strength (to his body), both saw with his eyes God's glory, and heard with his ears God's voice and understood with…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
41Let us lift up our hearts with our hands To the lofty One in heaven.
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39Why should a living man complain, A man concerning his sin?
40Our way has been searched out and examined, And we will turn to the Lord.
— Lamentations 3:41 —
42We have sinned, We have transgressed; And thou hast not pardoned.
43Thou hast visited us in wrath, And driven us away: Thou hast slain, Thou hast not pitied.