1A song for the ascent to Jerusalem. LORD, remember David and all that he suffered.2He took an oath before the LORD. He vowed to the Mighty One of Israel,3"I will not go home; I will not let myself rest.4I will not let my eyes sleep nor close my eyelids in slumber5until I find a place to build a house for the LORD, a sanctuary for the Mighty One of Israel."6We heard that the Ark was in Ephrathah; then we found it in the distant countryside of Jaar.7Let us go to the dwelling place of the LORD; let us bow low before him.8Arise, O LORD, and enter your sanctuary, along with the Ark, the symbol of your power.9Your priests will be agents of salvation; may your loyal servants sing for joy.10For the sake of your servant David, do not reject the king you chose for your people.11The LORD swore to David a promise he will never take back: "I will place one of your descendants on your throne.12If your descendants obey the terms of my covenant and follow the decrees that I teach them, then your royal line will never end."13For the LORD has chosen Jerusalem ; he has desired it as his home.14"This is my home where I will live forever," he said. "I will live here, for this is the place I desired.15I will make this city prosperous and satisfy its poor with food.16I will make its priests the agents of salvation; its godly people will sing for joy.17Here I will increase the power of David; my anointed one will be a light for my people.18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but he will be a glorious king."
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)
"Chapter Contents
David's care for the ark. (1-10) The promises of God. (11-18)
Commentary on Psalm 132:1-10
David bound himself to find a place for the Lord, for the ark, the token of God's presence. When work is to be done for the Lord, it is good to tie ourselves to a time. It is good in the morning to fix upon work for the day, with submission to Providence, for we know not what a day may bring forth. And we should first, and without delay, seek to have our own hearts made a habitation of God through the Spirit. He prays that God would take up his dwelling in the habitation he had built; that he would give grace to the ministers of the sanctuary to do their duty. David pleads that he was the anointed of the Lord, and this he pleads as a type of Christ, the great Anointed. We have no merit of our own to plead; but, for His sake, in whom there is a fulness of merit, let us find favour. And every true believer in Christ, is an anointed one, and has received from the Holy One the oil of true grace. The request is, that God would not turn away, but hear and answer their petitions for his Son's sake.
Commentary on Psalm 132:11-18
The Lord never turns from us when we plead the covenant with his anointed Prophet, Priest, and King. How vast is the love of God to man, that he should speak thus concerning his church! It is his desire to dwell with us; yet how little do we desire to dwell with him! He abode in Zion till the sins of Israel caused him to give them up to the spoilers. Forsake us not, O God, and deliver us not in like manner, sinful though we are. God's people have a special blessing on common enjoyments, and that blessing puts peculiar sweetness into them. Zion's poor have reason to be content with a little of this world, because they have better things prepared for them. God will abundantly bless the nourishment of the new man, and satisfy the poor in spirit with the bread of life. He gives more than we ask, and when he gives salvation, he will give abundant joy. God would bring to nothing every design formed to destroy the house of David, until King Messiah should arise out of it, to sit upon the throne of his Father. In him all the promises centre. His enemies, who will not have him to reign over them, shall at the last day be clothed with shame and confusion for ever."
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