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Psalm 132

¹Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
²How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
³Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
⁴I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
⁵Until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
⁶Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
⁷We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
⁸Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
⁹Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
¹⁰For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
¹¹The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
¹²If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
¹³For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
¹⁴This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
¹⁵I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
¹⁶I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
¹⁷There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
¹⁸His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

⁶Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
⁷That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
⁸And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
⁹Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
¹⁰Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
¹¹And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.
¹²But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
¹³Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
¹⁴Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
¹⁵Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
¹⁶And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

2Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
²And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
³But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
⁴And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
⁵To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
⁶But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
⁷But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
⁸(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
⁹And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
¹⁰Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.