Psalm 134:2 “Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!”

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD!

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Lift vp your hands to the Sanctuarie, and praise the Lord.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.

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Cross references

“Lift up”

Psalm 28:2 Psalm 63:4 Psalm 141:2 Lamentations 3:41 Lamentations 2:19

Psalm 28:2 · BSB

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

Psalm 63:4 · BSB

So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.

Psalm 141:2 · BSB

May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.

Lamentations 3:41 · BSB

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

Lamentations 2:19 · BSB

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 corn…

“in the sanctuary”

1 Timothy 2:8 Psalm 26:6

1 Timothy 2:8 · BSB

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

Psalm 26:6 · BSB

I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

Also

Psalm 63:2

Psalm 63:2 · BSB

So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!

3May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

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