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Psalms 134

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

¹Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh,

²Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.

³May Yahweh bless you from Zion,

¹Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh,

²Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.

³May Yahweh bless you from Zion,

¹Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh,

²Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.

³May Yahweh bless you from Zion,

In context

Psalms 134 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

²It is like the precious oil on the head,

³like the dew of Hermon,

¹See how good and how pleasant it is

²It is like the precious oil on the head,

³like the dew of Hermon,

Immediately after

¹Praise Yah!

²you who stand in Yahweh’s house,

³Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good.

⁴For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself,

⁵For I know that Yahweh is great,

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,