Psalm 132:5 {131:5}
Good News Translation
until I provide a place for the LORD, a home for the Mighty God of Jacob."

New Revised Standard Version
until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Contemporary English Version
until I find a home for you, the mighty LORD God of Jacob."

New American Bible
Till I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or rest to my temples: until I find out a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or rest to my temples: until I find out a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

I find

2 Samuel 6:17 And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David offered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.

1 Chronicles 15:3,12 And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark of God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it. . . .

Acts 7:46 Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

an habitation.

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

2 Chronicles 2:6 Who then can be able to build him a worthy house? if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain him: who am I that I should be able to build him a house? but to this end only, that incense may be burnt before him.

Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

Acts 7:47-49 But Solomon built him a house, . . .

Ephesians 2:22 In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

for the mighty

Psalm 132:2 How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:

Context
Remember David's Affliction
4If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids, 5Or rest to my temples: until I find out a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.6Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the fields of the wood.…
Cross References
Acts 7:46
Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Genesis 49:24
His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

1 Kings 8:17
And David, my father, would have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel:

1 Chronicles 22:7
And David said to Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built a house to the name of the Lord my God.

Psalm 26:8
I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

Psalm 84:1
Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. [2] How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

Psalm 132:2
How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:

Psalm 132:4
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