28:2 Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help,
when I lift my hands 1 toward your holy temple! 2
63:4 For this reason 3 I will praise you while I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands. 4
134:2 Lift your hands toward the sanctuary
and praise the Lord!
141:2 May you accept my prayer like incense,
my uplifted hands like the evening offering! 5
A psalm of David.
141:1 O Lord, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me!
Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!
2:8 Ask me,
and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, 7
the ends of the earth as your personal property.
1 sn I lift my hands. Lifting one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer.
2 tn The Hebrew term דְּבִיר (dÿvir, “temple”) actually refers to the most holy place within the sanctuary.
3 tn Or perhaps “then.”
4 sn I will lift up my hands. Lifting up one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer (see Ps 28:2; Lam 2:19) or respect (Ps 119:48).
5 tn Heb “may my prayer be established [like] incense before you, the uplifting of my hands [like] an evening offering.”
6 sn Psalm 141. The psalmist asks God to protect him from sin and from sinful men.
7 sn I will give you the nations. The