A song for those who go up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord.
1LORD, remember David and all the times he didn’t do what he wanted.2LORD, he made a promise. Mighty One of Jacob, he made a promise to you.3He said, ‘I won’t enter my house or go to bed.4I won’t let my eyes sleep. I won’t close my eyelids5until I find a place for the LORD. I want to build a house for the Mighty One of Jacob.’6Here are the words we heard in Ephrathah. We heard them again in the fields of Kiriath Jearim.7‘Let us go to the LORD’s house. Let us worship at his feet. Let us say,8“LORD, rise up and come to your resting place. Come in together with the ark. It’s the sign of your power.9May your priests put on godliness as if it were their clothes. May your faithful people sing for joy.” ’10In honour of your servant David, don’t turn your back on your anointed king.11The LORD made a promise to David. It is a firm promise that he will never break. He said, ‘After you die, I will place one of your own sons on your throne.12If your sons keep my covenant and the laws I teach them, then their sons shall sit on your throne for ever and ever.’13The LORD has chosen Zion. That’s the place where he wants to live.14He has said, ‘This will be my resting place for ever and ever. Here I will sit on my throne, because that’s what I want.15I will greatly bless Zion with everything it needs. I will give plenty of food to the poor people living there.16I will put salvation on its priests as if it were their clothes. God’s faithful people will always sing for joy.17‘Here in Jerusalem I will raise up a mighty king from the family of David. I will set up the lamp of David’s kingdom for my anointed king. Its flame will burn brightly for ever.18I will put shame on his enemies as if it were their clothes. But he will wear on his head a shining crown.’
Psalm 132
King James Version
1A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:2How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;3Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,5Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.6Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.7We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.8Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.9Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.10For thy servant David' sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.11The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.12If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.13For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.14This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.15I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.16I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.17There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.18His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.