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Psalm 132:4-6
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4 I will give my eyes no sleep,
    my eyelids no rest,
5 Till I find a place for the Lord,
    a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
6 “We have heard of it in Ephrathah;[a]
    we have found it in the fields of Jaar.

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Footnotes

  1. 132:6 Ephrathah: the homeland of David, cf. Ru 4:11. The fields of Jaar: poetic for Kiriath-jearim, a town west of Jerusalem, where the ark remained for several generations, cf. 1 Sm 7:1–2; 2 Sm 6:2; 1 Chr 13:5–6.
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