Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Hear ... my supplications ... holy oracle - so the most holy of the tabernacle or temple was called (1 Kings 6:16-19) х dªbiyr (H1687), from daabar (H1696), to speak], because God thence spake reponses when consulted by the people, at first through Moses, afterward through the high priest (Exodus 25:22; Numbers 7:89): Moses "heard the voice of One speaking unto him from off the mercy- seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims." The lifting up of hands was the attitude of prayer (Exodus 9:29; 1 Timothy 2:8). It symbolized the lifting up of the heart to God. David lifted up hands to the oracle, as it contained the ark of the covenant, the visible symbol of God's presence. God graciously condescended to man's natural craving after the visible, by this seen type of Him who is, as God, unseen, but who has in the incarnate Son of God manifested Himself in the most perfect way to us Christians. As the whole tabernacle, was "the tabernacle of the congregation" or 'meeting' х 'ohel (H168) ... mow`eed (H4150)] (Exodus 33:7), where God met His people; so the inmost part of it, or the most holy place, was His audience chamber.