1 A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. Behold, bless YHWH, all servants of YHWH, || Who are standing in the house of YHWH by night. 2 Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, || And bless YHWH. 3 YHWH blesses you out of Zion, || The Maker of the heavens and earth!
Psalms · Literal Standard Version
Psalm 134 Literal Standard Version
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (3)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 120:1; 1 Chronicles 9:33; Psalm 135:1–2; Revelation 19:5; 2 Chronicles 29:11
- 2 Psalm 28:2; 1 Timothy 2:8; Psalm 63:4; Psalm 141:2; Lamentations 3:41
- 3 Psalm 128:5; Psalm 20:2; Psalm 124:8; Romans 11:26; Psalm 135:21
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
For these same words of the Psalter, this sweet sound, that honeyed melody, as well of the mind as of the hymn, did even beget the Monasteries. By this sound were stirred up the brethren who longed to dwell together. This verse was their trumpet. It sounded through the whole earth, and they who had been divided, were gathered together.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)