Psalms 132:4

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹A Song of Ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured, ²how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: ³"I will not enter my house or get into my bed, ⁴I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,⁵until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob." ⁶We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar. ⁷Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool. ⁸Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength. ⁹May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy. ¹⁰For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

give sleep: Genesis 24:33, Ruth 3:18, Proverbs 6:4

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, [or] slumber to mine eyelids. Not that he never would or did take any sleep till this thing was brought about he had so much at heart; but that he could not and would not suffer himself to sleep comfortably and quietly because of it. Aben Ezra interprets it of sleep at noon; the phrases express his great desire and solicitude to have this affair accomplished, and his eager and diligent pursuit of it; see Proverbs 6:4; of the eager desire of Christ to suffer and die for his people, that they might be brought near to God, and be his dwelling place, see Luke 12:50.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will not give sleep to mine eyes ... - There is no difference here between the words sleep and slumber. The meaning is, that the house of the Lord should be his first care.