Psalm 132

¹A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the Lord, and He answered me.

¹A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—

¹A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

¹A song of ascents. When the Lord restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.

¹Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

¹A song of ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.

²⁴Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. Praise awaits You, O God, in Zion; to You our vows will be fulfilled.

¹⁶You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

¹³I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—

¹⁴the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

⁵until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

¹A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.

⁴“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

³³But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

¹⁰Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

⁴Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

¹⁸“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”

³³Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”

²²And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

⁶But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?

⁷“My son,” said David to Solomon, “it was in my heart to build a house for the Name of the Lord my God,

⁴⁶who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

⁴⁷But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.

¹⁷So they brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

²⁷But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

¹²Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons. And in the days of Saul, Jesse was old and well along in years.

¹Then the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the Lord and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the Lord.

²But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.

⁵So David assembled all Israel, from the River Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

⁶David and all Israel went up to Baalah of Judah (that is, Kiriath-jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called by the Name.

¹⁹So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

²The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

⁵Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!

⁷But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

¹How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

¹A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the Lord.

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

⁴¹Now therefore, arise, O Lord God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.

⁴²O Lord God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

³⁵Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”

³⁶And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O Lord, to the countless thousands of Israel.”

⁶¹He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

⁸She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.

⁹Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

¹⁰I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

⁵Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.

⁴²O Lord God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

¹²Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

¹³Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

³⁴I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

⁵Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

⁹Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.

³⁴Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.

¹²And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

³⁰But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

³You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

⁴‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah

⁴The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

¹⁶Therefore now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’

¹⁸Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

³²He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

³³and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

²¹“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the Lord.

³⁰But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

³⁰If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

³¹if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

¹⁴May the Lord give you increase, both you and your children.

⁷Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.

²²Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

⁶⁸But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

⁶⁹He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

¹⁶Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the Lord will surely dwell forever.

²The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.

²His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.

¹A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

²Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

⁸Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.

¹³I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”

²His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.

²The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

²¹Blessed be the Lord from Zion—He who dwells in Jerusalem. Hallelujah!

¹⁴He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.

⁴I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

⁵Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

⁹Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;

¹⁰then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

⁶And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And they distributed them to the crowd.

⁷They also had a few small fish, and Jesus blessed them and ordered that these be set before them as well.

¹⁰Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

¹¹You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will produce thanksgiving to God.

⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

⁴¹Now therefore, arise, O Lord God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.

⁹May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.

¹⁰I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

²⁴Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

¹⁵The Lord of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.

¹⁶On that day the Lord their God will save them as the flock of His people; for like jewels in a crown they will sparkle over His land.

⁴Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

⁶⁹He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

²¹In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

⁷Yet the Lord was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

³⁶I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

⁴Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.

¹⁰But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

²⁶May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

²²Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

³²He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

³³and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

⁸Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.

⁹You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the Lord will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

¹⁸Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

¹⁵Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”