[3] The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

The New Revised Standard Version associates it with "the Eternal Dwelling of God in Zion".

[9] Albert Barnes suggests that the specific afflictions under consideration were "his zeal, his labor, his trials in order that there might be a permanent place for [God's] worship".

[17] Heinrich Schütz composed a metred paraphrase of Psalm 132 in German, "In Gnaden, Herr, wollst eindenk sein", SWV 137, for the Becker Psalter, published first in 1628.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier set the psalm in Latin, Memento Domine, H.155, for soloists, chorus, 2 treble instruments and continuo (c. 1670).