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Psalms 28:2

(27-2) Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Oracle;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hands;   Lifting up Hands;   The Topic Concordance - Rendering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lift;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Hand;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Benediction;   Gestures;   Heaven ;   Veil;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Oracle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Lift;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Holy of Holies;   Oracle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hand;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen to the sound of my pleadingwhen I cry to you for help,when I lift up my handstoward your holy sanctuary.
Hebrew Names Version
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
King James Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
English Standard Version
Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
New Century Version
Hear the sound of my prayer, when I cry out to you for help. I raise my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
New English Translation
Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!
Amplified Bible
Hear the voice of my supplication (specific requests, humble entreaties) as I cry to You for help, As I lift up my hands and heart toward Your innermost sanctuary (Holy of Holies).
New American Standard Bible
Hear the sound of my pleadings when I cry to You for help, When I raise my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
World English Bible
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.
Legacy Standard Bible
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help,When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Berean Standard Bible
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Contemporary English Version
Please listen to my prayer and my cry for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy temple.
Complete Jewish Bible
Hear the sound of my prayers when I cry to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
Darby Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.
Easy-to-Read Version
I lift my hands and pray toward your Most Holy Place. Hear me when I call to you. Show mercy to me.
George Lamsa Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.
Good News Translation
Hear me when I cry to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy Temple.
Lexham English Bible
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.
Literal Translation
Hear the voice of my prayers in my crying to You, when I lift my hands toward Your Holy of Holies.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare the voyce of my humble peticion, when I crie vnto the, and holde vp my hondes towarde thy holy temple.
American Standard Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee,
King James Version (1611)
Heare the voyce of my supplications, when I cry vnto thee: when I lift vp my handes toward thy holy Oracle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare the voyce of my humble petitions when I crye vnto thee: when I holde vp my handes towarde thy holy place where thy arke is.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.
English Revised Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, here thou the vois of my bisechyng, while Y preie to thee; whyle Y reise myn hondis to thin hooli temple.
Update Bible Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle.
New King James Version
Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
New Living Translation
Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
New Life Bible
Hear my cry for loving-kindness as I call to You for help, and when I lift up my hands to Your holy place.
New Revised Standard
Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee for help, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy shrine.
Revised Standard Version
Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to thee for help, as I lift up my hands toward thy most holy sanctuary.
Young's Literal Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
THE MESSAGE
I'm letting you know what I need, calling out for help And lifting my arms toward your inner sanctum.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Contextual Overview

1 (27-1) <A psalm for David himself.> Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2 (27-2) Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple. 3 (27-3) Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts. 4 (27-4) Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward. 5 (27-5) Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when: Psalms 63:4, Psalms 125:5, Psalms 134:2, Psalms 141:2, Psalms 143:6, 2 Chronicles 6:13, 1 Timothy 2:8

thy holy oracle: or, the oracle of thy sanctuary, Psalms 5:7, Psalms 138:2, 1 Kings 6:19, 1 Kings 6:22, 1 Kings 6:23, 1 Kings 8:6-8, 1 Kings 8:28-30, 1 Kings 8:38, Daniel 6:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 9:22 - his hand 2 Samuel 16:23 - as if 1 Kings 6:5 - oracle 1 Kings 8:22 - General 2 Chronicles 4:20 - the oracle 2 Chronicles 6:12 - spread forth Nehemiah 8:6 - with lifting Job 33:26 - pray Psalms 18:3 - I will Psalms 61:1 - Hear Psalms 140:6 - hear Psalms 142:1 - with my voice Lamentations 2:19 - lift up Lamentations 3:41 - with Micah 1:2 - the Lord from

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
And he took ten camels of his master’s herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.
Genesis 24:29
And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.
Genesis 24:50
And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.
Genesis 25:20
Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.
Genesis 28:5
And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother.
Genesis 28:15
And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.
Genesis 28:20
And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.
Genesis 31:18
And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear the voice of my supplications,.... Which proceed from the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and are put up in an humble manner, under a sense of wants and unworthiness, and on the foot of grace and mercy, and not merit;

when I cry unto thee; as he now did, and determined he would, and continue so doing, until he was heard;

when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle: the holy of holies, in the tabernacle and in the temple, which was sometimes so called, 1 Kings 6:23; compared with 2 Chronicles 3:10; where were the ark, the mercy seat, and cherubim, between which the Lord dwelt, and gave responses to his people; or heaven itself, which the holy of holies was a figure of; where is the throne of God, and from whence he hears the prayers of his people directed to him; or else Christ himself, who is the most Holy, and the "Debir", or Oracle, who speaks to the Lord for his people; and by whom the Lord speaks to them again, and communes with them. The oracle had its name, "debir", from speaking. Lifting up of the hands is a prayer gesture, and here designs the performance of that duty to God in heaven, through Christ; see Lamentations 3:41; it was frequently used, even by the Heathens, as a prayer gesture r; see Psalms 141:2.

r "Duplices manus ad sidera tendit--et paulo post--et ambas ad coelum tendit palmas", Virgil. Aeneid. 10. vid. Aeneid. 2. "Ad coelum manibus sublatis", Horat. Satyr. l. 2. satyr. 5. v. 97. "Coelo supines si tuleris manus", ib. Carmin. l. 3. Ode 23. v. 1. "Et pandere palmas ante Deum delubra", Lucretius l. 5. prope finem

δη χειρα ανασχων, Homer. Iliad. 5. v. 174.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear the voice of my supplications - It was not mental prayer which he offered; it was a petition uttered audibly.

When I lift up my hands - To lift up the hands denotes supplication, as this was a common attitude in prayer. See the notes at 1 Timothy 2:8.

Toward thy holy oracle - Margin, as in Hebrew, “toward the oracle of thy holiness.” The word “oracle” as used here denotes the place where the answer to prayer is given. The Hebrew word - דביר debı̂yr - means properly the inner sanctuary of the tabernacle or the temple, the place where God was supposed to reside, and where He gave responses to the prayers of His people: the same place which is elsewhere called the holy of holies. See the notes at Hebrews 9:3-14. The Hebrew word is found only here and in 1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 6:16, 1Ki 6:19-23, 1 Kings 6:31; 1Ki 7:49; 1 Kings 8:6, 1Ki 8:8; 2 Chronicles 3:16; 2 Chronicles 4:20; 2 Chronicles 5:7, 2 Chronicles 5:9. The idea here is that he who prayed stretched out his hands toward that sacred place where God was supposed to dwell. So we stretch out our hands toward heaven - the sacred dwelling-place of God. Compare the notes at Psalms 5:7. The Hebrew word is probably derived from the verb to “speak;” and, according to this derivation, the idea is that God spoke to His people; that he “communed” with them; that He answered their prayers from that sacred recess - His special dwelling-place. See Exodus 25:22; Numbers 7:89.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 28:2. Toward thy holy oracle. — דביר קדשך debir kodshecha; debir properly means that place in the holy of holies from which God gave oracular answers to the high priest. This is a presumptive proof that there was a temple now standing; and the custom of stretching out the hands in prayer towards the temple, when the Jews were at a distance from it, is here referred to.


 
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