Psalm 134 Commentary
Bless The LORD!
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KEY THOUGHT: Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord. [Psalm 134:2 NKJV]
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Psalm 134 NKJV
Praising the Lord in His House at Night
A Song of Ascents.
134 Behold, bless the Lord,
All you servants of the Lord,
Who by night stand in the house of the Lord!
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,
And bless the Lord.
3 The Lord who made heaven and earth
Bless you from Zion!
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New King James Version (NKJV)
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Psalm 134 Commentary
While many temple activities were restricted to the daytime, some special activities needed to be done throughout the night. Therefore, there was always a need for night shift activities such as guarding the Sanctuary and keeping the fire on.
The message from this psalm seems to focus on these priests who worked at night. Let them praise the LORD in the process of executing their duties.
Let praising the LORD be on the “to-do” list for the night. It would, therefore, serve as an important reminder to the saint. Praise isn’t for the ‘Praise and Worship’ team alone.
Their praise is ‘songless’. But they lift their hands to the LORD. No one saint is short of tools in this task!
It seems to convey the thought that night shift activities may have been viewed as less important. They didn’t rank highly on the temple task list. Let the priests who served during the night consider it a privilege and praise the LORD for it.
It also suggests that praising the LORD is a 24/7 assignment. Let there be no gaps. It is an obvious application if the saint thinks of night praises as an instruction to keep the fire even in dark moments of one’s life.
Keep praising the LORD even when the lights are out. In moments of less activity, in moments of fewer opportunities, and in moments of low expectations, let the saint praise the LORD.
Believers raise their hands in prayer, probably and in part, because of an instruction to do so in the psalm.
The last verse is a prayer that the LORD blesses these night workers. The reference to the LORD as the Maker of heaven and earth may convey the thought that the same LORD made both the day and the night. He will bless the day as well as the night.
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