“ This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. ”
This is my rest for ever - My home; my permanent abode. I will no more remove from place to place - as when the ark was carried in the wilderness, and as it has been since; but Zion shall now be...
This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have (i) desired it. (i) Meaning, for his own sake and not for the plentifulness of the place: for he promises to bless it, declaring before that...
CXXXII. David's Zeal and its Reward. Psalms 132:1-5 . David's oath to find a worthy abode for the Ark in which Yahweh dwelt. Psalms 132:1 b . affliction: rather pains, i.e. the pains he...
14. This is my rest for ever. The same truth is here put into the mouth of God, to give it additional weight; and it is declared not to have been in vain that the Temple had been erected, si...
DISCOURSE: 726 ZION A TYPE OF THE CHURCH Psalms 132:13-16 . The Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it....
This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. This is my rest for ever - Here the Christian Church is most indubitably meant. This is God's place for ever. After this there ne...
This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it - ( Psalms 68:16 .) The Lord's answer is exactly consonan...
This is the most difficult of the Pilgrim Songs. According to accepted literary criticism it must be a post-exilic Ps. The Temple worship has been restored. The days of David are in the distant past....
Psalms 132:1-18 THE continuance of "the sure mercies of David" to his descendants for his sake is first besought from God, and is then promised, for his sake, by God Himself, speaking in the singe...
the Lord's Blessing upon Zion Psalms 132:1-18 This psalm evidently dates from the dedication of Solomon's temple. In the glory of completion God never forgets the toils and anxieties of the bui...
The pilgrims stand at the very entrance of the Holy City, and their song is one of strong desire, and equally strong confidence. In the first part the desire is expressed (vv. Psa 132:1-10). It is f...
ALL these very precious promises, prayers, and praises, will find an easy explanation from the view of the scriptures just referred to, as well as other portions of the divine word, which come in to...
This [is] my rest for ever ,.... The rest of my majesty, as the Targum; the place of his rest: and this being for ever shows that not Mount Zion literally, nor the temple, are meant; but the church...
This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. Ver. 14. This is my rest for ever ] It was so because God was pleased to make it so; he rested in his love; he would seek no f...
For the Lord hath chosen Zion Taken either for the whole mountain, whereof Zion and Moriah were two parts, or for Jerusalem, which was, in a great part, built upon mount Zion, whence it is often ca...
God's Choice of Zion; God's Promises to Zion. 11 The L ORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it;...
I will no more wander to several places as I have done, but here I have fixed my abode.
INTRODUCTION The author of this Psalm and the occasion upon which it was composed are both unknown. The opinion of M. Henry, Perowne, and others, is that it was composed for the dedication of Solomo...
Psalms 132 This Psalm is plainly a hymn for the consecration of the Temple. We may call it the song of the builders. In its first portion, extending to the close of the seventh verse, the Church p...
This Psalm is a prayer and pleading of the covenant, such a prayer as might have been offered by Solomon at the opening of the Temple, or by any of the descendants of David, either in their times of...
This psalm is justly ascribed to David. It recites his vow to seek out a place of rest for the ark of the Lord; and the song of praise and prayer on its removal from Kirjath-jearim. Psalms 132:6 ....
Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions. The house of God This psalm was probably composed on the occasion of the installation of the ark in the place provided for it in the temple. Solom...
EXPOSITION This present "Song of Ascents" is well suited to be a "pilgrim-song"—sung by those who went up to Jerusalem to visit the temple, and revivify their faith in the God who had chosen Zio...
Prayer for the House of God and the House of David. A song of degrees, showing that the mercies of God, so richly promised to David, 2 Samuel 7:12-29 , would find their real fulfilment in the Mes...
1 Kings 8:13 ; 1 Kings 8:27 ; Ephesians 2:22 ; Hebrews 12:22 ; Isaiah 11:10 ; Isaiah 12:6 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Isaiah 66:1 ; Isaiah 8:18 ; Joel 3:21 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 132:8 ; Psalms 68:1...