Martin Luther on Psalms 132:7

Verse. 7. VVe wil enter into his tabernacle and worship before his footestoole.

These wordes doe plainly shew that he speaketh of Ierusalem: For he maketh rehearsall of those thinges which came to passe after Dauids time when the vow was fulfilled which he had vowed. This is therefore a voice of gratulation, containing also an exhortation. As if he should say: Since we haue a place for the word of God appointed and as[illegible: 1 letter]ured vnto vs by God him self, why doe we stay? why do we not go thither to heare the word, to pray, to giue thankes, to set forth the mercy and goodnes of the Lord? For these are in a maner the things which we must doe in the house of God & in the temple, To worship▪ To worship, signifieth a kind of gesture or motion of y• body which we are wont to vse when we pray, as to bowe our selues, to turne our face, and to lift vp our eyes vnto the Lord.

Before his footestoole, is as much to say, as before ye mercise at or the Arke, where God promised that he would dwell. Nowe, wheresoeuer the word is, there is also the footestoole, the habitation, the resting place, and the altar of God. Like as by the worde the Prophetes doe signifie that God is present: as contrarywise where the word is not, there God is not present, and so are we as sheepe in the desert without a shepeheard.