Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
Parallel translations
- KJV Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
- BSB Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
- NKJV Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the Lord.
- NASB Lift up your hands to the sanctuary And bless the Lord.
- NLT Lift your hands toward the sanctuary, and praise the Lord.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
- 1 Tim 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
- Ps 63:4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
- Ps 141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
- Lam 3:41Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
- Lam 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 life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
- Ps 63:2So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
- Ps 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
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