Psalms 134:2

Lift up your hands/arms to pray to him in the temple and praise him!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

In Context

1All you people who serve Yahweh, who stand up and ◄serve/pray to► him at night in his temple, come and praise him!

3And I want Yahweh, who created heaven and the earth, to bless you from where he lives in the temple on Zion Hill.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 8:6Then Ezra praised Yahweh, the great God, and all the people lifted up their hands and said, “Amen! Amen!” Then they all bowed down with their foreheads touching the ground, and they worshiped Yahweh.

Psalms 28:2Listen to me when I call out for you to help me, when I pray, lifting up my hands as I face your sacred temple.

Psalms 63:4I will praise you all the time that I live; I will lift up my hands to you while I pray.

Psalms 141:2Accept my prayer as though it were incense being burned as an offering [SIM] to you. And accept me while I lift up my hands to pray to you like you accept sacrifices that I offer to you each evening [SIM].

Lamentations 3:41We should pray [IDM] sincerely and lift up our arms toward God in heaven, and say,

Matthew Henry on Psalms 134:2-3

A Call to Bless God. 1 Behold, bless ye the Lord , all ye servants of the Lord , which by night stand in the house of the Lord . 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord . 3 The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. This psalm instructs us concerning a two-fold blessing:— I. Our blessing God, that is, speaking well of him, which here we are taught to do, v. 1, 2 . 1. It is a call to the Levites to do it. They were the servants of the Lord by office, appointed to minister in holy… Read the whole commentary →

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