Psalms 131:2 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 131:2

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

BSB

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ASV

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

KJV

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

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Commentary

6 voices

Jerome

LETTER 22.27 (420)

I know your humility. I know that you can say with sincerity, "Lord, my heart is not haughty or my eyes lofty"; I know that in your heart as in that of your mother the pride through which the devil fell has no place. It would be time wasted to write to you about it; for there is no greater folly than to teach a pupil what he knows already. But now that you have despised the boastfulness of the world, do not let the fact inspire you with new boastfulness.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Hilary of Poitiers

Homilies on the Psalms, Psalm 131 (367)

Then he goes on: Like a weaned child upon his mother's breast, so will you reward my soul. We are told that when Isaac was weaned Abraham made a feast because now that he was weaned he was on the verge of boyhood and was passing beyond milk food. The Apostle feeds all that are imperfect in the faith and still babes in the things of God with the milk of knowledge. Thus to cease to need milk marks the greatest possible advance.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,.... Or "my soul" (o); behaved quietly and peaceably towards all men, even his inferiors in Saul's court and elsewhere, and had given no tokens of a restless, turbulent, and ambitious spirit; as well as behaved patiently under all his troubles and afflictions, reproaches and calumnies: or "if I have not" (p), being in the form of an oath or imprecation, as Kimchi and Aben Ezra observe; if I have not thus behaved, let it come to me so and so, or let me be as a weaned child.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child - On the contrary, I have been under the rod of others, and when chastised have not complained; and my silence under my affliction was the fullest proof that I neither murmured nor repined, but received all as coming from the hands of a just God. My soul is even as a weaned child - I felt I must forego many conveniences and comforts which I once enjoyed; and these I gave up without repining or demurring.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1210: “The Weaned Child” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1875)

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
לֹ֤א	lo'	not	H3808 →
שִׁוִּ֨יתִי׀	shi.Vi.ti	I have made still	H7737 →
וְדוֹמַ֗מְתִּי	ve.do.Mam.ti	and I have made quiet	H1826 →
נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י	naf.Shi	self my	H5315 →
כְּ֭גָמֻל	Ke.ga.mul	like a weaned [child]	H1580 →
עֲלֵ֣י	'a.Lei	on	H5921 →
אִמּ֑וֹ	'i.Mo	mother his	H517 →
כַּגָּמֻ֖ל	ka.ga.Mul	[is] like the weaned [child]	H1580 →
עָלַ֣י	'a.Lai	on me	H5921 →
נַפְשִֽׁי׃	naf.Shi	soul my	H5315 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 42:11
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
leads to
- Psalms 42:5
  Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 33:6
  Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Jeremiah 30:17
  But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- Psalms 43:5
  Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Through
Lamentations 3:26
It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
leads to
- Psalms 37:7
  Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
- Psalms 37:34
  Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
- Psalms 130:5
  I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
Through
Mark 10:15
Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
leads to
- Matthew 18:3
  “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms