PA550 Psalm 132:1-134:3 mp3

Concluding the psalms of the degrees, that series of fifteen songs written or dedicated by Hezekiah to that time when he nearly died, but the LORD graciously added fifteen years to his life, a sign of which was the shadow moving backwards ten degrees on his father’s sundial. In Psalm 132, Hezekiah calls on Jehovah to remember David, both his words and the promises of Jehovah to him, and calls on him to remember this and spare David’s house and the temple he built from the Assyrian invaders. In Psalm 133, David celebrates the reunited nation after the sad civil war that developed by Absalom’s instigation, which psalm also applies well to Hezekiah’s great Passover attended by brother Israelites from the northern kingdom. In Psalm 134, the night servants in the temple who serve there during the night shift offer their praises to Yahweh, so that such praises emanate from the temple both day and night.