Book of Common Prayer

A Song of degrees.

132 Jehovah, remember for David all his affliction;

² How he swore unto Jehovah, vowed unto the Mighty One of Jacob:

³ I will not come into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed;

⁴ I will not give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine eyelids,

⁵ Until I find out a place for Jehovah, habitations for the Mighty One of Jacob. …

⁶ Behold, we heard of it at Ephratah, we found it in the fields of the wood.

⁷ Let us go into his habitations, let us worship at his footstool.

⁸ Arise, Jehovah, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength.

⁹ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.

¹⁰ For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thine anointed.

¹¹ Jehovah hath sworn [in] truth unto David; he will not turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne;

¹² If thy children keep my covenant, and my testimonies which I will teach them, their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne.

¹³ For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his dwelling:

¹⁴ This is my rest for ever; here will I dwell, for I have desired it.

¹⁵ I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy ones with bread;

¹⁶ And I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

¹⁷ There will I cause the horn of David to bud forth; I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

¹⁸ His enemies will I clothe with shame; but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

11 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall be fruitful;

² and the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.

³ And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;

⁴ but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of his reins, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

⁶ The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.

⁷ And the cow and the she-bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the adder, and the weaned child shall put forth its hand to the viper's den.

⁹ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, standing as a banner of the peoples: the nations shall seek it; and his resting-place shall be glory.

¹¹ For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified [are] all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

¹² saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren; in [the] midst of [the] assembly will I sing thy praises.

¹³ And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children which God has given me.

¹⁴ Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil;

¹⁵ and might set free all those who through fear of death through the whole of their life were subject to bondage.

¹⁶ For he does not indeed take hold of angels [by the hand], but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.

¹⁷ Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;

¹⁸ for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.