24:7 Look up, 1 you gates!
Rise up, 2 you eternal doors!
Then the majestic king 3 will enter! 4
24:9 Look up, you gates!
Rise up, you eternal doors!
Then the majestic king will enter!
87:2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give him thanks!
Praise his name!
107:16 For he shattered the bronze gates,
and hacked through the iron bars. 5
107:18 They lost their appetite for all food, 6
and they drew near the gates of death.
147:13 For he makes the bars of your gates strong.
He blesses your children 7 within you.
1 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 tn Heb “lift yourselves up.”
3 tn Or “king of glory.”
4 tn Following the imperatives of the preceding lines, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose or result.
5 sn The language of v. 16 recalls Isa 45:2.
6 tn Heb “all food their appetite loathed.”
7 tn Heb “your sons.”