A song of ascents
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📚LORD, remember David,
and all his afflictions,
2 📚And how he swore to the LORD,
and made a vow to the
mighty God of Jacob:
3 📚“Surely I will not go into
a room of my house,
or get into my bed,
4 📚And I will not give sleep
to my eyes,
or slumber to my eyelids,
5 📚Until I find a place
for the LORD,
a dwelling for the mighty
God of Jacob”.
6 📚Look, we heard of it
at Ephratah;
we found it in the fields
of the woods.
7 📚We will go into his tabernacle.
We will worship at his footstool.
8 📚Arise, O LORD, into your
resting place,
you, and the ark of your strength.
9 📚Let your priests be clothed
with righteousness,
and let your saints shout for joy.
10 📚For the sake of your servant
David do not turn away the face
of your anointed.
11 📚The LORD has sworn in truth
to David,
and he will not turn
from it:
“I will set on your throne one of the
fruit of your body.
12 📚If your children keep my covenant
and my testimony,
which I will teach them,
their children will also sit
on your throne forevermore”.
13 📚For the LORD has chosen Zion;
he has desired it for his dwelling.
14 📚“This is my resting
place forever; here I will dwell,
for I have desired it.
15 📚I will abundantly bless
her provisions.
I will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 📚I will also clothe her priests
with salvation,
and her saints will shout aloud
for joy.
17 📚There I will cause the horn
of David to grow.
I have appointed a lamp
for my anointed.
18 📚I will clothe his enemies
with shame;
but his crown will gleam
on himself”.