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Psalms 132

1 The faithful, grounding on God’s promise made unto David, desire that he would establish the same, both as touching his posterity and the building of the Temple, to praie there as was forespoken, Deut. 12.5.
¶ A song of degrees.
1.Lord, remember David with all his aaffliction.
2.Who sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mightie God of Jaakób,
3.I bwil not enter into the tabernacle of mine house, nor come upon my palet or bed,
4.Nor suffer mine eyes to sleep, nor mine eye lids to slumber,
5.Until I find out a place for the cLord, an habitation for the mightie God of Jaakób.
6.Lo, we heard of it in dEphráthah, and found it in the fields of the forest.
7.We wil entre into his Tabernacles, and worship before his fotestole.
8.Arise, ô Lord, to come into thy erest, thou, and the Ark of thy strength.
9.Let thy Priests be clothed with frighteousness, and let thy Saints rejoyce.
10.For thy gservant David’s sake refuse not the face of thine Anointed.
11.The Lord hathe sworn in trueth unto David, and he wil not shrink from it, saying, Of the fruit of thy body wil I set upon thy throne.
12.If thy sonnes keep my covenant, and my testimonies, that I shal teach them, their sonnes also shal sit upon thy throne for hever.
13.For the Lord hathe chosen Zión, & loved to dwell in it, saying,
14.This is my rest for ever: here wil I dwell, for I have a idelite therein.
15.I wil surely bless her vitailes, & wil satisfy her poor with bread,
16.And wil clothe her Priests with ksalvation, and her Saints shal shout for joy.
17.There wil I make the lhorn of David to bud: for I have ordained a light for mine Anointed.
18.His enemies wil I clothe with shame, but on him his crown

Notes

1-a.
That is, with how great difficulty he came to the Kingdom, and with how great zeal and care he went about to build your Temple.
3-b.
Because the chief charge of the King was to set forth God’s glory, he shows, that he could take no rest, neither would go about any worldly thing, were it never so necessary, before he had executed his office.
5-c.
That is, the Ark, which was a sign of God’s presence.
6-d.
The common brute was that the Ark should remain in Ephrathah: that is, in Bethlehem a plentiful place but after we perceived that you would place it in Jerusalem, which was barren as a forest and compassed about only with hills.
8-e.
That is, Jerusalem, because that afterward his Ark should remove to none other place.
9-f.
Let the effect of your grace both appear in the Priests & in the people.
10-g.
As you first made promise to David, so continue it to his posterity, that whatsoever they shall ask for their people, it may be granted.
12-h.
Because this cannot be accomplished but in Christ, it follows that the promise was spiritual.
14-i.
Meaning, for his own sake, and not for the plentifulnes of the place: for he promises to bless it, declaring before, that it was barren.
16-k.
That is, with my protection, whereby they shall be safe.
17-l.
Though his force for a time seemed to be broken, yet he promises to restore it.