Psalms 134 · Verse 2

Psalms 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
Psalms 134:2, King James Version

Psalms 134:2 in other translations

BSBLift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
WEBLift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD!
ASVLift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
YLTLift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
DARBYLift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.
BBEGive praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.
WebsterLift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

What does Psalms 134:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Psa 134:1-3. 1, 2. The pilgrim bands arriving at the sanctuary call on the priests, who

stand in the house of the Lord--at the time of the evening sacrifice, to unite in praising God in their name and that of the people, using appropriate gestures, to which the priests reply, pronouncing the Mosaic blessing which they alone could pronounce. A fit epilogue to the whole pilgrim-book, Psalms 120-134. by night--the evening service (Psa 141:2), as opposed to morning (Psa 92:2). 2. Lift up your hands--(Compare Psa 28:2).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary - קדש kodesh, "in holiness:" or, as the Syriac, lekoudishe, "to holiness;" in sancta, Vulgate; and εις τα ἁγια, Septuagint; "in holy things; or, as the Aethiopic, in the house of the sanctuary." The expression seems very similar to that of St. Paul, 1Tim 2:8 : "Lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." Bless the Lord - That is, speak good of his name: tell the wonders he has wrought, and show that his name is exalted.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 134:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שְׂאֽוּ\־se.'u-lift upH5375
יְדֵכֶ֥םye.de.Khemhands yourH3027
קֹ֑דֶשׁKo.desh[the] sanctuaryH6944
וּ֝בָרֲכוּU.va.ra.khuand blessH1288
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 134:2

  • Psalms 28:2

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

  • 1 Timothy 2:8

    I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

  • Psalms 63:4

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

  • Psalms 141:2

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

  • Lamentations 3:41

    Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

  • Lamentations 2:19

    Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

  • Psalms 26:6

    I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:

  • Psalms 63:2

    To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lift up.
28:2; 63:4; 141:2; La 2:19; 3:41
in the sanctuary. or, in holiness.
26:6; 1Ti 2:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 134:1

    A Song of degrees. Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.

  • Psalms 134:2

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

  • Psalms 134:3

    The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

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Psalms 134:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Alzad vuestras manos al santuario, y bendecid á Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Élevez vos mains dans le lieu saint, et bénissez l’ Éternel!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Erhebet eure Hände im Heiligtum und preiset Jehova!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		qui statis in domo Domini, in atriis domus Dei nostri.