Psalms 132

¹A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:

Afflictions - All his sufferings for thy sake.

⁵Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

Until - Until I have raised an house in which the ark may be put.

⁶Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

It - Of the ark. Ephratah - In the tribe of Ephraim, which was called also Ephratah. Found it - Afterwards we found it in Kirjath-jearim, which signifies a city of woods, in the territory whereof the ark was seated for twenty years.

⁷We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.

Tabernacles - Into his temple. Footstool - The ark, is often said to sit between the cherubim, which were above the ark.

⁸Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

Rest - Into thy resting place, the temple so called, Isa 66:1, where thou hast now a fixed habitation. The ark - The seat of thy powerful and glorious presence.

¹⁰For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

David’s sake - In regard of thy promises vouchsafed to David. Turn not - Cast me not out of thy presence. Of - Of me whom thou hast anointed to be king over thy people.

¹⁶I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

Salvation - With thy saving graces and blessings.

¹⁷There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

There - In Jerusalem. To bud - His power and glory to flourish. A lamp - A successor to continue for ever in his family, as this phrase is expounded 1Kings 11:36 15:4, and particularly one eminent and glorious light, namely, the Messiah.