Chapter 134

The last of the Songs of Ascents. The servants of the LORD who stand in his house by night are told to lift up their hands in the sanctuary and bless the LORD, who bless them from Zion.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

This is the last of the fifteen songs of degrees; and, if they were at any time sung all together in the temple-service, it is fitly made the conclusion of them, for the design of it is to stir up the ministers to go on with their work in the night, when the solemnities of the day were over. Some make this psalm to be a dialogue. I. In the Ps. 134:1, 2, the priests or Levites who sat up all night…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Psa 134:1-3. 1, 2. The pilgrim bands arriving at the sanctuary call on the priests, who stand in the house of the Lord--at the time of the evening sacrifice, to unite in praising God in their name and that of the people, using appropriate gestures, to which the priests reply, pronouncing the Mosaic blessing which they alone could pronounce. A fit epilogue to the whole pilgrim-book, Psalms 120-134.…