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Psalms 134:2
2Lift up your hands towards his Holy Place, and praise him.
Psalms 134:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the Lord.
Context of Psalms 134:2
1Listen, all you servants of the Lord, come and praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, all you who serve him in his temple during the night. Lift up your hands towards his Holy Place, and praise him. 3The Lord made the heaven and the earth. From his home in Zion, may he bless you!
Read all of Psalms 134Psalms 134:2 word by word
שְׂאֽוּ־יְדֵכֶ֥ם קֹ֑דֶשׁ וּ֝בָרֲכוּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 134:2
- Psalms 28:2Hear me when I call to you for help. Please be kind to me. I am lifting up my hands towards your Most Holy Place.
- Psalms 63:4Yes, I will thank you for as long as I live. I will lift up my hands and I will pray to you.
- Psalms 141:2I offer my prayer to you like incense. Please accept it when I raise my hands to you. Accept it like a gift that I offer to you in the evening.
- Lamentations 2:19Stand up and pray for God's help. Talk to God all night. Pour out your words and thoughts to the Lord as you pour out water from a jar. Lift up your hands to him, and ask him to save the lives of your children. They fall down to die at the end of every street because they are so hungry.
- Lamentations 3:41We should lift up our hands and pray to God in heaven. We should be honest with God and say to him,
- Psalms 26:6I wash my hands as a sign that I live in a pure way. I will worship you at your altar, Lord.
- 1 Timothy 2:8So then, in every place where you meet together, I want the men to pray. The men who lift up their hands and pray must be those who live good lives. They must not be people who are angry or who quarrel with others.
Commentaries on Psalms 134:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary - Margin, In holiness. The Hebrew word properly means holiness, but it may be applied to a holy place. See Psalm 20:2. The lifting up of the hands is properly expressive of prayer, but the phrase may be used to denote praise or worship in general. And bless the Lord - In the night-watches - while all around is still, - let there be one place where the voice of praise shall ascend on high.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2Those who serve by night were the priests and Levites (see also Psalm 135:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-3stand in the house of the Lord--at the time of the evening sacrifice, to unite in praising God in their name and that of the people, using appropriate gestures, to which the priests reply, pronouncing the Mosaic blessing which they alone could pronounce. A fit epilogue to the whole pilgrim-book, Psalms 120-134. by night--the evening service (Psa 141:2), as opposed to morning (Psa 92:2). 2. Lift up your hands--(Compare Psa 28:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 134
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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