Matthew Henry Commentary Psalms 132:1-10

"Jehovah, remember for David All his affliction; How he sware unto Jehovah, And vowed unto the Mighty One of Jacob: Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, Nor go up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids; Until I find out a place for Jehovah, A tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob. Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah: We found it in the field of the wood. We will go into his tabernacles; We will worship at his footstool. Arise, O Jehovah, into thy resting-place; Thou, and the ark of thy strength. Let thy priest be clothed with righteousness; And let thy saints shout for joy. For thy servant David`s sake Turn not away the face of thine anointed." — Psalms 132:1-10 (ASV)

David bound himself to find a place for the Lord, for the ark, the symbol of God's presence. When work is to be done for the Lord, it is good to commit ourselves to a schedule. It is good in the morning to plan our work for the day, with submission to Providence, for we do not know what a day may bring forth.

And we should first, and without delay, seek to have our own hearts made a dwelling place of God through the Spirit. He prays that God would make His dwelling in the place he had built; that He would give grace to the ministers of the sanctuary to do their duty. David pleads that he was the anointed of the Lord, and this he pleads as a type of Christ, the great Anointed.

We have no merit of our own to plead; but, for His sake, in whom there is a fullness of merit, let us find favor. And every true believer in Christ is an anointed one, and has received from the Holy One the oil of true grace. The request is that God would not turn away, but hear and answer their petitions for His Son's sake.