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    Psalms 132

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    David made a vow so severe that even his eyelids were enlisted: no house, bed, sleep, or slumber until a dwelling was found for the LORD.

    The vow and the arkvv. 1–10

    The psalm asks the LORD to remember David’s hardships, then produces the vow in full domestic detail. David will not enter his house, get into bed, or give sleep to his eyes until he finds a place for the Mighty One of Jacob. The ark is heard of in Ephrathah and found in the fields of Jaar—the search itself passing briskly over the map—and the worshippers call for the LORD and the ark of His strength to rise to their resting place. Priests, saints, and David’s anointed one are all drawn into the plea.

    The oath and the resting placevv. 11–18

    The LORD’s oath to David answers the earlier vow with a promise about descendants and a throne, conditional on his sons keeping the covenant and testimony. Then the scene settles on Zion, chosen as the LORD’s home, where the poor receive bread, priests are clothed with salvation, and saints sing. For David there is a growing horn and a prepared lamp; his enemies, meanwhile, receive the less glamorous wardrobe of shame, while his crown gleams.

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    1. Ps 132:1A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,

    2. Ps 132:2how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

    3. Ps 132:3“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,

    4. Ps 132:4I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

    5. Ps 132:5until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

    6. Ps 132:6We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.

    7. Ps 132:7Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool.

    8. Ps 132:8Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.

    9. Ps 132:9May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.

    10. Ps 132:10For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.

    11. Ps 132:11The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

    12. Ps 132:12If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

    13. Ps 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

    14. Ps 132:14“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

    15. Ps 132:15I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

    16. Ps 132:16I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints will sing out in joy.

    17. Ps 132:17There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

    18. Ps 132:18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

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    • 17Luke 1:69He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
    • 112 Samuel 7:12And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
    • 7Psalms 99:5Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!
    • 15Psalms 147:14He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.
    • 15Leviticus 26:4–5I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
    • 17Ezekiel 29:21In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
    • 18Psalms 35:26May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
    • 11Psalms 89:3–4You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
    • 11Acts 2:30But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
    • 13Hebrews 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
    • 13Psalms 78:68–69But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
    • 172 Chronicles 21:7Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
    • 18Job 8:22Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
    • 1Psalms 120:1A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
    • 5Ephesians 2:22And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
    • 7Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

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