“ Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,a and bless the LORD. ”
Lift 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 Psalms 20:2 . The lifting up of the hands is proper...
Lift up your (b) hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. (b) For their charge was not only to keep the temple, but to pray there and to give God thanks.
CXXXIV. Exhortation to the Nightly Service of Yahweh. Psalms 134:1 f. may be addressed by a band of pilgrims to Levites who were about to begin their nocturnal service. To them in response comes...
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary - קדש kodesh, "in holiness:" or, as the Syriac, lekoudishe, "to holiness;" in sancta, Vulgate; and εις τ...
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. Lift up your hands. The gesture signified elevation of the heart in prayer ( Psalms 28:2 ). In the sanctuary. The Chaldaic Targum...
Lift up your hands (see Note, Psalms 28:2 ) (in) the sanctuary. — The usual meaning would be to the sanctuary (see reference above), but since the servants of Jehovah are here addressed as stand...
Psalms 134:1-3 THIS fragment of song closes the pilgrim psalms after the manner of a blessing. It is evidently antiphonal, Psalms 134:1-2 being a greeting, the givers of which are answered in P...
Unity Is of God Psalms 133:1-3 ; Psalms 134:1-3 The word Behold suggests that some special manifestation of unity was taking place under the psalmist's eyes, perhaps in connection with some...
This is the last of the Songs of Ascents, and breathes the spirit of rest. As in the previous one, the joy of the fellowship of faithful souls was the burden, here it is that of the sense of peace an...
Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary ,.... Which Aben Ezra interprets of the priests lifting up their hands to bless the people; but Kimchi, better, of lifting up of the hands to God in prayer; see...
Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. Ver. 2. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary ] Or, Lift up holy hands, as 1 Timothy 2:8 . One readeth it, out of the Hebrew, Lift up your...
Behold, bless ye the Lord , &c. Attend to your duty, O ye ministers of the Lord; who not only by day, but by night also, reverently wait upon him in his house, 1 Chronicles 9:33 . Employ your h...
A Call to Bless God. A song of degrees. 1 Behold, bless ye the L ORD , all ye servants of the L ORD , which by nig...
Lift up your hands unto God in prayer and praises, thus expressing and exciting your inward devotion. In the sanctuary; in that holy house of God Where you stand, Psalms 134:1 . Or, in or with hol...
INTRODUCTION “Three things,” says Delitzsch, “are clear with regard to this Psalm. First, that it consists of a greeting, Psalms 134:1-2 , and a reply, Psalms 134:3 . Next, that the greeting is ad...
This is the last of the fifteen psalms entitled MAHALOTH, or songs of degrees. See on Psalms 120 . It is ascribed to David by the Syriac, but has no title in the Hebrew. The first and second verse...
Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord. Man blessing the Lord and the Lord blessing man The two first verses of this psalm--the last of the Pilgrim Psalms--are addressed by the...
EXPOSITION THE " Little Psalter" of" Songs of Ascents" terminates here with a short psalm, due probably to the compiler—a psalm of four lines only. It consists of two portions: (1) A call fr...
The Office of the Servants of the Church. A song of degrees, probably used, by its original purpose, as the greeting of the worshiping multitudes at the opening of a great festival, the priests an...
1 Timothy 2:8 ; Lamentations 2:19 ; Lamentations 3:41 ; Psalms 141:2 ; Psalms 26:6 ; Psalms 28:2 ; Psalms 63:4