the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Young's Literal Translation
Psalms 28:2
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Listen to the sound of my pleadingwhen I cry to you for help,when I lift up my handstoward your holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
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.
Hear the sound of my prayer, when I cry out to you for help. I raise my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!
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).
Hear the sound of my pleadings when I cry to You for help, When I raise my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help,When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Please listen to my prayer and my cry for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy temple.
Hear the sound of my prayers when I cry to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.
I lift my hands and pray toward your Most Holy Place. Hear me when I call to you. Show mercy to me.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.
Hear me when I cry to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy Temple.
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my prayers in my crying to You, when I lift my hands toward Your Holy of Holies.
Heare the voyce of my humble peticion, when I crie vnto the, and holde vp my hondes towarde thy holy temple.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee,
Heare the voyce of my supplications, when I cry vnto thee: when I lift vp my handes toward thy holy Oracle.
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.
Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Lord, here thou the vois of my bisechyng, while Y preie to thee; whyle Y reise myn hondis to thin hooli temple.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle.
Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
Hear my cry for loving-kindness as I call to You for help, and when I lift up my hands to Your holy place.
Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee for help, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy shrine.
(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.
Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to thee for help, as I lift up my hands toward thy most holy sanctuary.
I'm letting you know what I need, calling out for help And lifting my arms toward your inner sanctum.
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
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
And the servant taketh ten camels of the camels of his lord and goeth, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he riseth, and goeth unto Aram-Naharaim, unto the city of Nahor;
And Rebekah hath a brother, and his name [is] Laban, and Laban runneth unto the man who [is] without, unto the fountain;
And Laban answereth -- Bethuel also -- and they say, `The thing hath gone out from Jehovah; we are not able to speak unto thee bad or good;
and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.
And Isaac sendeth away Jacob, and he goeth to Padan-Aram, unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.
`And lo, I [am] with thee, and have kept thee whithersoever thou goest, and have caused thee to turn back unto this ground; for I leave thee not till that I have surely done that which I have spoken to thee.'
And Jacob voweth a vow, saying, `Seeing God is with me, and hath kept me in this way which I am going, and hath given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on --
And Jacob lifteth up his feet, and goeth towards the land of the sons of the east;
and leadeth all his cattle, and all his substance which he hath acquired, the cattle of his getting, which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram, to go unto Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
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.
