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Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD!

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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Lifted hands in the sanctuary make praise visible, drawing attention to how your body takes part when you honor YHWH.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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1 Timothy 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.Both passages describe lifted hands in worship, while Timothy specifies prayer with holy hands, without anger and doubting.
Psalm 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.Both psalms connect lifted hands with God's holy dwelling, though Psalm 28 voices petitions and Psalm 134 commands praise.
Psalm 63:4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.Both psalms join lifting hands with praise to God, and Psalm 63 expresses a resolve to bless him throughout life.
Psalm 150:1Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!Both passages command praise to the LORD in his sanctuary.
Psalm 141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.Both psalms describe lifted hands in worship; Psalm 141 compares that gesture to the evening sacrifice.
Lamentations 3:41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.Both passages urge hands lifted toward God, and Lamentations joins the heart to that outward gesture.
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the …Both passages describe hands lifted toward God in a nighttime setting, though Lamentations pleads for hungry children and Psalm 134 commands praise.
Nehemiah 8:6Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped the …Both passages connect lifted hands with honoring the LORD; Nehemiah describes the people's response to Ezra's blessing.
Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.Both passages describe hands extended toward God; Isaiah also records God's refusal to hear people whose hands are full of blood.
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 passages concern service to the LORD, with Psalm 134 addressing sanctuary servants and Deuteronomy naming Levi's appointed work.
1 Chronicles 29:20Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the LORD your God!” All the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and …Both passages urge praise to the LORD and describe bodily expressions of worship, whether lifted hands or bowed heads.
Where this verse fits

Praise and worship. gratitude.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Lift your hands and speak one sentence of praise

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Encouragement

The servants standing in YHWH’s house at night have a task: praise him. Their worship is directed to the one who made heaven and earth.

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