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Psalm 131 King James Version (with Apocrypha)

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Textus Receptus
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  • 1611
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
1 A Song of Ascents. By David. Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.
2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
3 Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forward and forever more.
Cross references (3)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Romans 12:16; Psalm 139:6; Job 42:3; Matthew 11:29; Psalm 101:5
  2. 2 Mark 10:15; 1 Corinthians 14:20; Psalm 42:11; Lamentations 3:26; Psalm 43:5
  3. 3 Psalm 130:7; Isaiah 26:4; Psalm 146:5; Jeremiah 17:7–8; Psalm 115:9–11

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXX)

    (ver. 1). Jonas cried from the deep; from the whale's belly. He was not only beneath the waves, but also in the entrails of the beast; nevertheless, those waves and that body prevented not his prayer from reaching God, and the beast's belly could not contain the voice of his prayer.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)