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Psalm 131.
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The psalmist renounces pride and restless ambition, picturing the soul as a quieted child. Israel is invited into the same enduring hope.
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- 1A 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.
- 2Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
- 3Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
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