1My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Psalms 131
This psalm is David's profession of humility, humbly made, with thankfulness to God for his grace, and not in vain-glory. It is probable enough that (as most interpreters suggest) David made this protestation in answer to the calumnies of Saul and his courtiers, who represented David as an ambitious aspiring man, who,…
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