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Psalm 134:1

A Song of Ascents. Look! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD’s house!

1A Song of Ascents. Look! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD’s house!
2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD!
3May the LORD bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.
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Notice

Night in YHWH’s house is a time for praise, a detail that can widen your sense of when worship belongs.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 122:1A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to the LORD’s house!”The LORD’s house is the shared setting: Psalm 122 expresses gladness at going there, while Psalm 134 addresses servants already there.
Revelation 19:5A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”Both summon all God’s servants to praise him, with Revelation naming the small and the great.
Psalm 120:1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.Both bear the Song of Ascents title, though Psalm 120 recalls answered distress and Psalm 134 urges praise.
1 Chronicles 9:33These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service, for they were employed in their …Night service links the passages: Psalm 134 addresses servants standing at night, and Chronicles describes singers working day and night.
Psalm 135:1–2Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD’s name! Praise him, you servants of the LORD,Both address the LORD’s servants with the same command to praise him.
2 Chronicles 29:11My sons, don’t be negligent now; for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers and burn incense.”Standing in service to the LORD links the passages, with Chronicles stressing the ministers’ charge and Psalm 134 urging praise.
Psalm 124:1A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,Both are Songs of Ascents centered on the LORD: one urges praise, while the other begins recalling his help.
Leviticus 8:35You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep the LORD’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”Both describe nighttime attendance at a place of worship, though Leviticus commands a seven-day duty and warns of death.
Luke 2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.Worship at the temple during the night links the servants in Psalm 134 with the widow described in Luke.
2 Chronicles 35:5Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a …Both concern standing in a holy place for service, with Chronicles specifying divisions and Psalm 134 addressing praise.
1 Chronicles 23:30–32and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise in the evening;Standing to praise the LORD links these texts, with Chronicles naming morning and evening and Psalm 134 naming night.
Deuteronomy 10:8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the LORD’s covenant, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his …Both describe service marked by standing before the LORD, with Deuteronomy naming Levi’s duties and Psalm 134 commanding praise.
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Spend one minute praising YHWH tonight

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Encouragement

Praise has a place in the night hours. YHWH is worthy of the worship of those who stand in his house, even when the day has ended.

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