The travelers are going home, and are singing the last song in their songbook (psalter). They leave early in the morning, before morning light, for their journey is long. As they start out for their pre-dawn travel, they pass outside the city gates; looking back they see the guards on the temple wall, and the brightly lit lamps shining from the windows of the chambers which surround the sanctuary. The travelers are moved by the sight and they chant a farewell to the perpetual attendants who work at night in the temple. Their song inspires the ministry night workers to pronounce upon them a blessing as they leave: "May the LORD, who made heaven and earth, bless you from Jerusalem."

The Psalm teaches me to pray for those night workers who are continually minister before the Lord while most of us sleep - no matter what their job calling. Whether they are ministers, shelter managers, factory workers, gas station attendants, coffee house barristas, policeman, or fireman - as they work unto the Lord - they pronounce blessings upon us.

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