1321 A Song of the Ascents. Remember, Jehovah, for David, all his afflictions. 2 Who hath sworn to Jehovah. He hath vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: 3 'If I enter into the tent of my house, If I go up on the couch of my bed, 4 If I give sleep to mine eyes, To mine eyelids—slumber, 5 Till I do find a place for Jehovah, Tabernacles for the Mighty One of Jacob. 6 'Lo, we have heard it in Ephratah, We have found it in the fields of the forest. 7 We come in to His tabernacles, We bow ourselves at His footstool. 8 Arise, O Jehovah, to Thy rest, Thou, and the ark of Thy strength, 9 Thy priests do put on righteousness, And Thy pious ones cry aloud. 10 For the sake of David Thy servant, Turn not back the face of Thine anointed.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 132:1-10
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.