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132:1  A song of ascents: Adonai, remember in David’s favor all the hardships he endured,
132:2  how he swore to Adonai, vowed to the Mighty One of Ya‘akov,
132:3  “I will not enter the house where I live or get into my bed,
132:4  I will not allow myself to sleep or even close my eyes,
132:5  until I find a place for Adonai, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Ya‘akov.”
132:6  We heard about it in Efrat, we found it in the Fields of Ya‘ar.
132:7  Let’s go into his dwelling and prostrate ourselves at his footstool.
132:8  Go up, Adonai, to your resting-place, you and the ark through which you give strength.
132:9  May your cohanim be clothed with righteousness; may those loyal to you shout for joy.
132:10  For the sake of your servant David, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
132:11  Adonai swore an oath to David, an oath he will not break: “One of the sons from your own body I will set on your throne.
132:12  If your sons keep my covenant and my instruction, which I will teach them, then their descendants too, forever, will sit on your throne.”
132:13  For Adonai has chosen Tziyon, he has wanted it as his home.
132:14  “This is my resting-place forever, I will live here because I so much want to.
132:15  I will bless it with plenty of meat, I will give its poor their fill of food.
132:16  Its cohanim I will clothe with salvation, and its faithful will shout for joy.
132:17  I will make a king sprout there from David’s line and prepare a lamp for my anointed one.
132:18  His enemies I will clothe with shame, but on him there will be a shining crown.”