Lift up your hands The gesture of prayer. Cp. Psalms 28:2; 1 Timothy 2:8.
in the sanctuary Rather to the sanctuary, towards the most holy place, as the earthly dwelling-place of Jehovah. The rendering of R.V. marg., in holiness, is less probable.
Verse Psalms 134:2. _LIFT UP YOUR HANDS_ IN _THE SANCTUARY_] קדש _kodesh_, "in holiness:" or, as the SYRIAC, [Syriac] _lekoudishe_, "to holiness;" _in sancta_, VULGATE; and εις τα ἁγια, SEPTUAGINT;...
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 properly expr...
PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...
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 the...
PSALMS 134 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Night Service in the Temple. ANALYSIS (See Inserted Headlines.) (Lm.) Song of the Steps. (ADDRESSED TO NIGHT-WATCHERS IN THE TEMPLE.) 1 Lo! bless ye Jehovah all...
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. LIFT UP YOUR HANDS. The gesture signified elevation of the heart in prayer (). IN THE SANCTUARY. The Chaldaic Targum has 'with holiness;'...
134:2 in (h-5) Or 'to.' sanctuary, (i-7) Or 'of holiness,' _ Kodesh_ . see Psalms 89:5 ....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 134 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
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 standing _...
שְׂאֽוּ ־יְדֵכֶ֥ם קֹ֑דֶשׁ וּ֝ בָרֲכוּ אֶת ־יְ
Psalms 134:1 THIS fragment of song closes the pilgrim psalms after the manner of a blessing. It is evidently antiphonal, Psalms 134:1 being a greeting, the givers of which are answered in Psalms 134:3...
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 great...
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 and...
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....
_Courts. Both clergy and laity praise God for his favours and power. (Worthington)_...
Psalms 134 closes the series by calling on the servants of Jehovah to bless Him. Night and day should furnish praise to Him, and in the holy place holy hands be lifted up to bless. Jehovah was there,...
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 P...
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 han...
_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 hearts a...
Lift up your hands in the Sanctuary, in a gesture of appeal, AND BLESS THE LORD, the admonition being not to forsake the acts of worship and devotion while engaged in the duty of watching. The congreg...
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 answe...
IN THE SANCTUARY: Or, in holiness...
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 holiness...
Psalms 134:2 up H5375 (H8798) hands H3027 sanctuary H6944 bless H1288 (H8761) LORD H3068 Lift up -...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to, and prayer for, those who are constantly ministering before the Lord. CHARACTERS: God, night watchers. CONCLUSION: Even by night, God's servants are under His eye and have...
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 verses a...
_Lift up your hands in the sanctuary._ THE SANCTUARY The uses and meaning of this word “sanctuary” are very interesting and instructive. In all countries and in all ages the word has been used to den...
_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 cong...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 134:1. This final Song of Solomon 1:1 of Ascents is geared toward a special worship occasion, perhaps the opening or closing
INTRODUCTION “Three things,” says Delitzsch, “are clear with regard to this Psalm. First, that it consists of a greeting, Psalms 134:1, and a reply, Psalms 134:3. Next, that the greeting is addressed...
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 from those w...
Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which stand by night in the house of the LORD. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. The LORD that made heaven and earth bles...
1 Timothy 2:8; Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 3:41; Psalms 141:2;...