Psalms 134:2
1 Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
3 May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
- KJV
- Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
- WEB
- Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD!
- ASV
- Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
- DARBY
- Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.
- BLB
- Lift up your⁺ hands to the holy place, and bless YHWH!
- ÅB
- Løft deres hender opp til helligdommen og lov Herren!
- OTB
- Løft hendene mot det hellige stedet
Og gi Herren lovprisning. - B1930
- Løft eders hender op til helligdommen og lov Herren!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 28:2
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Read in context1 Timothy 2:8
Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
Read in contextPsalms 63:4
So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
Read in contextPsalms 141:2
May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
Read in contextLamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
Read in contextLamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
Read in contextPsalms 26:6
I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
Read in contextPsalms 63:2
So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
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