Psalm 131:2 {130:2}
Good News Translation
Instead, I am content and at peace. As a child lies quietly in its mother's arms, so my heart is quiet within me.

New Revised Standard Version
But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.

Contemporary English Version
But I have learned to feel safe and satisfied, like a young child in its mother's arms.

New American Bible
Rather, I have stilled my soul, Like a weaned child to its mother, weaned is my soul.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.

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If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.

quieted

Psalm 42:5,11 Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, . . .

Psalm 43:5 To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?

Psalm 62:1 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David. [2] Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation.

1 Samuel 24:10 Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed.

1 Samuel 25:34,33 Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall. . . .

1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to stone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons and daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.

2 Samuel 15:25,26 And the king said to Sadoc: Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will bring me again, and he will shew me it, and his tabernacle. . . .

2 Samuel 16:11,12 And the king said to Abisai, and to all his servants: Behold my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now a son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse as the Lord hath bidden him. . . .

Isaiah 30:15 For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your strength be. And you would not:

Lamentations 3:26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

myself Heb.

Luke 21:19 In your patience you shall possess your souls.

John 14:1,2 Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me. . . .

as a child

Matthew 18:3,4 And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

Mark 10:15 Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter into it.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

Context
I Have Stilled My Soul
1A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me. 2If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.3Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.…
Cross References
Matthew 18:3
And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

Psalm 62:1
Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David. [2] Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation.

Isaiah 28:9
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.

Psalm 131:1
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