2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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.
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Commentary on Psalms 134 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 134
This is the last of the fifteen songs of degrees; and, if they were at any time sung all together in the temple-service, it is fitly made the conclusion of them, for the design of it is to stir up the ministers to go on with their work in the night, when the solemnities of the day were over. Some make this psalm to be a dialogue.
In singing this psalm we must both stir up ourselves to give glory to God and encourage ourselves to hope for mercy and grace from him.
A song of degrees.
Psa 134:1-3
This psalm instructs us concerning a two-fold blessing:-