Psalm 132:1-18
A Song of the Ascents.
132 Remember, O Jehovah, concerning David+All his humiliations;+
2 How he swore to Jehovah,+How he vowed to the Powerful One+ of Jacob:+
3 “I will not go into the tent of my house.+I will not go up on the divan of my grand lounge,+
4 I will not give sleep to my eyes,+Nor slumber to my own beaming eyes,+
5 Until I find a place for Jehovah,+A grand tabernacle* for the Powerful One of Jacob.”+
6 Look! We have heard it in Ephʹra·thah,+We have found it in the fields of the forest.+
7 Let us come into his grand tabernacle;+Let us bow down at his footstool.+
8 Do arise, O Jehovah, to your resting-place,+You and the ark+ of your strength.+
9 Let your priests themselves be clothed with righteousness,+And let your own loyal ones cry out joyfully.+
10 On account of David your servant,+Do not turn back the face of your anointed one.*+
11 Jehovah has sworn to David,+Truly he will not draw back from it:*+“Of the fruitage of your belly+I shall set on your throne.+
12 If your sons will keep my covenant+And my reminders that I shall teach them,+Their sons also forever+Will sit upon your throne.”+
13 For Jehovah has chosen Zion;+He has longed for it* as a dwelling for himself:+
14 “This is my resting-place forever;+Here I shall dwell, for I have longed for it.+
15 Its* provisions I shall bless without fail.+Its poor ones I shall satisfy with bread.*+
16 And its priests I shall clothe with salvation;+And its loyal ones will without fail cry out joyfully.
17 There I shall cause the horn of David to grow.+I have set in order a lamp for my anointed one.*+
18 His enemies I shall clothe with shame;+But upon him his diadem+ will flourish.”*+
Footnotes
^ Or, “grand residence.” Lit., “tabernacles,” but pl. to denote excellence.
^ “Your anointed one.” Heb., meshi·cheʹkha; Gr., khri·stouʹ; Syr., meshi·chakh; Lat., chriʹsti.
^ Or, “a truth from which he will not draw back.”
^ Or, “her,” fem., referring to “Zion.”
^ Or, “food.”
^ See vs 13 ftn.
^ “For my anointed one.” Heb., lim·shi·chiʹ; Gr., khri·stoiʹ; Syr., lam·shi·cheh; Lat., chriʹsto.
^ Or, “put forth blossoms.”
