Psalm 134:2
New International Version
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.

New Living Translation
Lift your hands toward the sanctuary, and praise the LORD.

English Standard Version
Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD!

Berean Standard Bible
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!

King James Bible
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

New King James Version
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary And bless the LORD.

NASB 1995
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary And bless the LORD.

NASB 1977
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary And bless Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary And bless the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
Lift up your hands in the holy place and bless the LORD!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lift up your hands in the holy place and praise the LORD!

American Standard Version
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Lift up your hands unto Holiness and bless LORD JEHOVAH!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
lift your hands in prayer toward his holy place and praise the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord.

English Revised Version
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, and bless ye the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Lift your hands toward the holy place, and praise the LORD.

Good News Translation
Raise your hands in prayer in the Temple, and praise the LORD!

International Standard Version
Lift up your hands to the Holy Place and bless the LORD.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, | And bless YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!

New American Bible
Lift up your hands toward the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

NET Bible
Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and praise the LORD!

New Revised Standard Version
Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

World English Bible
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Young's Literal Translation
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Bless the LORD, All You Servants
1A song of ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD! 2Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD! 3May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.…

Cross References
1 Timothy 2:8
Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

Psalm 28:2
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Psalm 63:2
So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.


Treasury of Scripture

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

lift up

Psalm 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Psalm 63:4
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

Psalm 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

in the sanctuary.

Psalm 26:6
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

1 Timothy 2:8
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

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Psalm 134
1. An exhortation to bless God














(2) Lift up your hands (see Note, Psalm 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 in the sanctuary, this direction seems unreasonable. Render, therefore, in holiness, and comp. "lifting up holy hands" (1Timothy 2:8).

Verse 2. - Lift up your hands. The attitude of prayer and praise (Psalm 63:4; Psalm 119:48; Psalm 141:2). In the sanctuary; rather, towards the sanctuary; i.e. towards the holy of holies. Others render, "in holiness." And bless the Lord (compare the first clause of ver. 1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Lift up
שְׂאֽוּ־ (śə·’ū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

your hands
יְדֵכֶ֥ם (yə·ḏê·ḵem)
Noun - fdc | second person masculine plural
Strong's 3027: A hand

to the sanctuary
קֹ֑דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

and bless
וּ֝בָרֲכוּ (ū·ḇā·ră·ḵū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

the LORD!
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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