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
132:7 Let us go to his dwelling place!
Let us worship 3 before his footstool!
138:2 I will bow down toward your holy temple,
and give thanks to your name,
because of your loyal love and faithfulness,
for you have exalted your promise above the entire sky. 4
By David.
138:1 I will give you thanks with all my heart;
before the heavenly assembly 6 I will sing praises to you.
For the music director, according to the gittith style; 8 a psalm of David.
8:1 O Lord, our Lord, 9
how magnificent 10 is your reputation 11 throughout the earth!
You reveal your majesty in the heavens above! 12
For the music director, according to the gittith style; 14 a psalm of David.
8:1 O Lord, our Lord, 15
how magnificent 16 is your reputation 17 throughout the earth!
You reveal your majesty in the heavens above! 18
For the music director, according to the gittith style; 20 a psalm of David.
8:1 O Lord, our Lord, 21
how magnificent 22 is your reputation 23 throughout the earth!
You reveal your majesty in the heavens above! 24
For the music director, according to the gittith style; 26 a psalm of David.
8:1 O Lord, our Lord, 27
how magnificent 28 is your reputation 29 throughout the earth!
You reveal your majesty in the heavens above! 30
6:10 When Daniel realized 31 that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows 32 in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. 33 Three 34 times daily he was 35 kneeling 36 and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.
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 “bow down.”
4 tc The MT reads, “for you have made great over all your name your word.” If retained, this must mean that God's mighty intervention, in fulfillment of his word of promise, surpassed anything he had done prior to this. However, the statement is odd and several emendations have been proposed. Some read, “for you have exalted over everything your name and your word,” while others suggest, “for you have exalted over all the heavens your name and your word.” The translation assumes an emendation of “your name” to “your heavens” (a construction that appears in Pss 8:3 and 144:5). The point is that God has been faithful to his promise and the reliability of that promise is apparent to all. For a fuller discussion of these options, see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 244.
5 sn Psalm 138. The psalmist vows to thank the Lord for his deliverance and protection.
6 tn The referent of the Hebrew term אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) is unclear. It refers either to the angelic assembly (see Gen 3:5; Ps 8:5) or to the pagan gods (see Pss 82:1, 6; 86:8; 97:7), in which case the psalmist’s praise takes on a polemical tone.
7 sn Psalm 8. In this hymn to the sovereign creator, the psalmist praises God’s majesty and marvels that God has given mankind dominion over the created order.
8 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term הגתית is uncertain; it probably refers to a musical style or type of instrument.
9 tn The plural form of the title emphasizes the
10 tn Or “awesome”; or “majestic.”
11 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
12 tc Heb “which, give, your majesty on the heavens.” The verb form תְּנָה (tÿnah; an imperative?) is corrupt. The form should be emended to a second masculine singular perfect (נָתַתָּה, natatah) or imperfect (תִתֵן, titen) form. The introductory אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “which”) can be taken as a relative pronoun (“you who”) or as a causal conjunction (“because”). One may literally translate, “you who [or “because you”] place your majesty upon the heavens.” For other uses of the phrase “place majesty upon” see Num 27:20 and 1 Chr 29:25.
13 sn Psalm 8. In this hymn to the sovereign creator, the psalmist praises God’s majesty and marvels that God has given mankind dominion over the created order.
14 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term הגתית is uncertain; it probably refers to a musical style or type of instrument.
15 tn The plural form of the title emphasizes the
16 tn Or “awesome”; or “majestic.”
17 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
18 tc Heb “which, give, your majesty on the heavens.” The verb form תְּנָה (tÿnah; an imperative?) is corrupt. The form should be emended to a second masculine singular perfect (נָתַתָּה, natatah) or imperfect (תִתֵן, titen) form. The introductory אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “which”) can be taken as a relative pronoun (“you who”) or as a causal conjunction (“because”). One may literally translate, “you who [or “because you”] place your majesty upon the heavens.” For other uses of the phrase “place majesty upon” see Num 27:20 and 1 Chr 29:25.
19 sn Psalm 8. In this hymn to the sovereign creator, the psalmist praises God’s majesty and marvels that God has given mankind dominion over the created order.
20 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term הגתית is uncertain; it probably refers to a musical style or type of instrument.
21 tn The plural form of the title emphasizes the
22 tn Or “awesome”; or “majestic.”
23 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
24 tc Heb “which, give, your majesty on the heavens.” The verb form תְּנָה (tÿnah; an imperative?) is corrupt. The form should be emended to a second masculine singular perfect (נָתַתָּה, natatah) or imperfect (תִתֵן, titen) form. The introductory אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “which”) can be taken as a relative pronoun (“you who”) or as a causal conjunction (“because”). One may literally translate, “you who [or “because you”] place your majesty upon the heavens.” For other uses of the phrase “place majesty upon” see Num 27:20 and 1 Chr 29:25.
25 sn Psalm 8. In this hymn to the sovereign creator, the psalmist praises God’s majesty and marvels that God has given mankind dominion over the created order.
26 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term הגתית is uncertain; it probably refers to a musical style or type of instrument.
27 tn The plural form of the title emphasizes the
28 tn Or “awesome”; or “majestic.”
29 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
30 tc Heb “which, give, your majesty on the heavens.” The verb form תְּנָה (tÿnah; an imperative?) is corrupt. The form should be emended to a second masculine singular perfect (נָתַתָּה, natatah) or imperfect (תִתֵן, titen) form. The introductory אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “which”) can be taken as a relative pronoun (“you who”) or as a causal conjunction (“because”). One may literally translate, “you who [or “because you”] place your majesty upon the heavens.” For other uses of the phrase “place majesty upon” see Num 27:20 and 1 Chr 29:25.
31 tn Aram “knew.”
32 sn In later rabbinic thought this verse was sometimes cited as a proof text for the notion that one should pray only in a house with windows. See b. Berakhot 34b.
33 map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
34 sn This is apparently the only specific mention in the OT of prayer being regularly offered three times a day. The practice was probably not unique to Daniel, however.
35 tc Read with several medieval Hebrew
36 tn Aram “kneeling on his knees” (so NASB).
37 tn Grk “for timely help.”