Psalms 28:2

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 

Psalms 63:4

63:4 For this reason ³  I will praise you while I live;

in your name I will lift up my hands. ⁴ 

Psalms 134:2

134:2 Lift your hands toward the sanctuary

and praise the Lord!

Psalms 134:1

Psalm 134 ⁵ 

A song of ascents. ⁶ 

134:1 Attention! ⁷  Praise the Lord,

all you servants of the Lord,

who serve ⁸  in the Lord’s temple during the night.

Psalms 2:8

2:8 Ask me,

and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, ⁹ 

the ends of the earth as your personal property.

[28:2]  ¹ sn I lift my hands. Lifting one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer.

[28:2]  ² tn The Hebrew term דְּבִיר (dÿvir, “temple”) actually refers to the most holy place within the sanctuary.

[63:4]  ³ tn Or perhaps “then.”

[63:4]  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).

[134:1]  ⁵ sn Psalm 134. The psalmist calls on the temple servants to praise God (vv. 1-2). They in turn pronounce a blessing on the psalmist (v. 3).

[134:1]  ⁶ sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21.

[134:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look!”

[134:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “stand.”

[2:8]  ⁹ sn I will give you the nations. The Lord promises the Davidic king universal dominion.