8 'Arise, Lord, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
8 Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
8 Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
8 Up, God, enjoy your new place of quiet repose, you and your mighty covenant ark;
8 Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
8 Arise, O Lord, and enter your resting place, along with the Ark, the symbol of your power.
14 "This is my resting place for ever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired it.
14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
14 "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
14 This will always be my home; this is what I want, and I'm here for good.
14 "This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
14 "This is my resting place forever," he said. "I will live here, for this is the home I desired.
(Read 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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 132:8
Commentary on Psalm 132:1-10
(Read 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.