Psalm 131 A Song of Ascents. Of David.

¹Lord, my heart is not haughty,

Nor my eyes lofty.

Neither do I concern myself with great matters,

Nor with things too profound for me.

²Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,

Like a weaned child with his mother;

Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

³O Israel, hope in the Lord

From this time forth and forever.

Vs. 1 “Lord, my heart is not haughty,

Nor my eyes lofty.

Neither do I concern myself with great matters,

Nor with things too profound for me.”

It is never of the Lord for any of us to try to sound profound and lofty. It is never of the Lord for any of us to be or act haughty. For haughtiness and loftiness is not born out of trusting our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but is only of this world. Therefore, when let go of all the deep and profound things that are well beyond our finite understanding and well beyond our own control, to our God and Savior we grow, because we cease trying to pretend to have the answers that only He has.

Vs. 2 “Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,

Like a weaned child with his mother;

Like a weaned child is my soul within me.”

This then is the state of peace that comes to all who have quieted and calmed their souls because they have turned it over to the Lord, who thus are now resting quietly in the Lord like a weaned child with his mother.  

Vs. 3 “O Israel, hope in the Lord

From this time forth and forever.”

From his own personal experience David now calls upon the nation of Israel, which is so often conflicted, so often unsettled, and yet to this day still tries to resolve their issues by human means, to look to the Lord for their answers. To hope in Him from this time forth and forever.

Scripture Quotations

New King James (1982): Thomas Nelson.