Lift up my hands. — For interesting illustrations of this Oriental custom see Exodus 9:29; 1 Kings 8:22, &c. Compare the well-known line: —
“If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer.”
TENNYSON: Morte d’Arthur.
Holy oracle. — Better, the shrine of thy sanctuary (see margin) — i.e., the holy of holies, the adytum, or inner recess of the Temple in which the ark was placed, as we see from 1 Kings 6:19-22. The Hebrew word, which is of doubtful derivation, is, with the exception of this place, only found in Kings and Chronicles. The margin, “the oracle of thy sanctuary,” is a better rendering than the text.