Psalm 131:2 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

Here are two things which will be comforts to us:? I. Consciousness of our integrity. This was David's rejoicing, that his heart could witness for him that he had walked humbly with his God, notwithstanding the censures he was under and the temptations he was in. 1. He aimed not at a high condition, nor was he desirous of making a figure in the world, but, if God had so ordered, could have been well content to spend all his days, as he did in the beginning of them, in the sheep-folds. His own... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 131:2

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself ,.... Or "my soul" F15 נפשי "animam meam", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; 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" F16 אם לא "si non", Montanus; "male sit mihi si non", Tigurine version. ,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 131:2

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. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 131:2

Verse 2 2.If I have not set, etc. He here employs a figure which appropriately explains what he meant, and likens himself to a weaned child; by which is intended, that he dismissed all the anxieties which disquiet the man of ambition, and was willing to be satisfied with small things. This assertion, which some might be inclined to disbelieve, he makes with an oath, expressed in that particular form of which I have elsewhere taken notice, in which the imprecation is not directly brought... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

Lowliness of mind. This psalm may have been written by David so far as its subject-matter is concerned. For that lowliness of mind of which it treats is quite as compatible with a high as with a humble position in life. Royalty may be very meek, and obscurity may be very proud. All moral qualities are independent of situations; they are a question of character, not of circumstance. Of the greatest One that ever bore our likeness it is said, "Thy King cometh … meek" ( Matthew 21:5 ). But... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

The soul's most blessed condition. That which the psalmist here affirms of himself is undoubtedly the spiritual condition which is nearest to heaven that here on earth we can know. I. HE TELLS US WHAT IT IS NOT . 1. Pride of heart is absent from it . "My heart is not haughty." We may say this to our fellow-men, and deceive them by a show of humility; but it is quite another thing to affirm this, as is here done, before the Lord, "to whom all hearts are open, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

Humility. "Lord, my heart is not haughty," etc. "The psalmist has learned from adversity the lesson of submission, and counsels the nation to fit itself in like manner for winning the blessings which are still in store." The authorship is uncertain; but it was probably written after the Exile. The writer had learned— I. HUMILITY . 1. Humility is exemplified in a lowly estimate of ourselves be/ore God and man . Before God as well as before man. 2. In not aiming at things... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:2

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself ; rather, I have stilled and quieted my soul . I have brought my soul into a state of peacefulness and content. As a child that is weaned of his mother . The weaned child is quiet and content; the suckling always impatient and restless. My soul is even as a weaned child . Another repetition for the sake of emphasis (see Psalms 130:5 , Psalms 130:6 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:2

Restraint of natural ambitions. "Instead of fretting after what is too great for him, he quiets his ambition, and his spirit lies calm and gentle, like a child in its mother's arms, that, after the first trouble of weaning is over, is soothed and lulled by the maternal caress." The image is strikingly simple and true, of natural desire stayed and of a subdued quietness of rest rather than delight. Perowne quotes the following as a mother's experience: "The weaned child has for the first... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 131:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 131:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 131:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 131:2

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