Psalm 134

This article is about Psalm 134 in Hebrew (Masoretic) numbering. For Psalm 134 in Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate numbering, see Psalm 135.

Psalm 134
"Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD"
Song of Ascents
Verse 2 of the psalm, written above a sink used for ritual hand washing at the Beit El yeshiva, Old City, Jerusalem
Other name
  • Psalm 133
  • "Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum"
LanguageHebrew (original)

Psalm 134 is the 134th psalm from the Book of Psalms, a part of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD". Its Latin title is "Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum".[1] It is the last of the fifteen Songs of Ascents (Shir Hama'alot), and one of the three Songs of Ascents consisting of only three verses.[2] The New King James Version entitles this psalm "Praising the Lord in His House at Night".[3]

This psalm is Psalm 133 in the slightly different numbering system of the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate versions of the Bible.

The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. It has been set to music often and paraphrased in hymns. The short psalm is part of the daily Catholic service Compline, for which settings in Latin were composed by composers such as Tomás Luis de Victoria and Orlande de Lassus. It is frequently used in Anglican Evening Prayer, with settings by John Dowland and Benjamin Rogers, among others.

  1. ^ Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 133 (134) Archived 7 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine medievalist.net
  2. ^ Samet, Rav Elchanan (2018). "Shiur #08: Psalm 117 – 'O Praise The Lord, All You Nations' The Shortest Psalm in the Book of Tehillim". Yeshivat Har Etzion. Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  3. ^ Psalm 134: NKJV