Psalms 134:1
Look! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD’s house!
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the LORD’s covenant, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
1 Chronicles 9:27They stayed around God’s house, because that was their duty; and it was their duty to open it morning by morning.
1 Chronicles 23:30and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise in the evening;
2 Chronicles 35:5Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.
Psalms 84:5Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
Psalms 113:1Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the LORD’s name.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 134:1
This is the last of the fifteen songs of degrees; and, if they were at any time sung all together in the temple-service, it is fitly made the conclusion of them, for the design of it is to stir up the ministers to go on with their work in the night, when the solemnities of the day were over. Some make this psalm to be a dialogue. I. In the first two verses , the priests or Levites who sat up all night to keep the watch of the house of the Lord are called upon to spend their time while they were upon the guard, not… Read the whole commentary →