1 > Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Nor do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me.
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.
You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
> See how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to live together in unity!
> I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"
He also chose David his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds; From following the ewes that have their young, He brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, And Israel, his inheritance. So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle. David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
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Commentary on Psalms 131 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 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, under pretence of a divine appointment, sought the kingdom, in the pride of his heart. But he appeals to God, that, on the contrary,
Some have made it an objection against singing David's psalms that there are many who cannot say, "My heart is not haughty,' etc. It is true there are; but we may sing it for the same purpose that we read it, to teach and admonish ourselves, and one another, what we ought to be, with repentance that we have come short of being so, and humble prayer to God for his grace to make us so.
A song of degrees of David.
Psa 131:1-3
Here are two things which will be comforts to us:-