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Look up,[a] you gates.
Rise up,[b] you eternal doors.
Then the majestic king[c] will enter.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 24:7 tn Heb “lift up your heads.” The gates of the Lord’s dwelling place are here personified. The idiom “lift up the head” often means “be confident, bold” (see Judg 8:28; Job 10:15; Ps 83:2; Zech 1:21).
  2. Psalm 24:7 tn Heb “lift yourselves up.”
  3. Psalm 24:7 tn Or “king of glory.”
  4. Psalm 24:7 tn Following the imperatives of the preceding lines, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose or result.

Lift up your heads, you gates;(A)
    be lifted up, you ancient doors,
    that the King(B) of glory(C) may come in.(D)

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