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Psalms 131:1
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Lord, my heart is not proud;my eyes are not haughty.I do not get involved with thingstoo great or too wondrous for me.
<> LORD, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me.
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
O Lord , my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.A song for going up to worship. Of David.
Lord , my heart is not proud; I don't look down on others. I don't do great things, and I can't do miracles.A song of ascents, by David.
O Lord , my heart is not proud, nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations, or concern myself with things that are beyond me.LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me.
LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me.
<> Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me.
A song of degrees or Psalme of Dauid. Lorde, mine heart is not hautie, neither are mine eyes loftie, neither haue I walked in great matters and hid from me.
O Yahweh, my heart is not exalted, and my eyes are not raised high;And I do not involve myself in great matters,Or in matters too marvelous for me.
A Song of Ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great matters or things too lofty for me.
(A song by David for worship.)
I am not conceited, Lord , and I don't waste my time on impossible schemes.A song of ascents. By David: Adonai , my heart isn't proud; I don't set my sight too high, I don't take part in great affairs or in wonders far beyond me.
A Song of degrees. Of David.
Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in great matters, and in things too wonderful for me.A song of David for going up to the Temple.
Lord , I don't feel proud. I don't see myself as better than others. I am not thinking about doing great things or reaching impossible goals.LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I deal in great matters, nor in things too high for me.
Lord , I have given up my pride and turned away from my arrogance. I am not concerned with great matters or with subjects too difficult for me.
A song of ascents. Of David.
My heart is not haughty nor my eyes arrogant. And I do not concern myself with things too great and difficult for me.A Song of Ascents. Of David. O Jehovah, my heart is not proud, nor have my eyes been lofty; nor have I walked in great things, nor in things too wondrous for me.
Lorde, I am not hye mynded, I haue no proude lokes.
A Song of Ascents; of David.
Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
A Song of Ascents; of David. {N}neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me.
[A song of degrees of Dauid.] Lord, my heart is not haughtie, nor mine eyes loftie: neither doe I exercise my selfe in great matters, or in things too high for mee.
O God I am not hygh mynded, I haue no proude lokes: I haue not vsed to walke in greater & waightier matters then I ought to do.
O Lord, my heart is not exalted, neither have mine eyes been haughtily raised: neither have I exercised myself in great matters, nor in things too wonderful for me.
A Song of Ascents; of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too wonderful for me.
The title of the hundrid and thrittithe salm. The song of greces, `to Dauith himself. Lord, myn herte is not enhaunsid; nether myn iyen ben reisid. Nether Y yede in the grete thingis; nether in merueilis aboue me.
A Song of Ascents; of David. Yahweh, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.
A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart [is] not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
LORD, my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Nor with things too profound for me.
A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.
Lord , my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I don't concern myself with matters too great or too awesome for me to grasp.O Lord, my heart is not proud. My eyes are not filled with pride. And I do not trouble myself with important things or in things too great for me.
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
O Lord , my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.O Yahweh, my heart, is not haughty, nor are mine eyes, lofty, neither have I moved among great matters, or among affairs too wonderful for me.
(130-1) <A 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.
A Song of Ascents. Of David. O LORD, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me.
A Pilgrim Song
God , I'm not trying to rule the roost, I don't want to be king of the mountain. I haven't meddled where I have no business or fantasized grandiose plans.A Song of Ascents, of David.
O Lord , my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me.Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
my heart: Numbers 12:3, Deuteronomy 17:20, 1 Samuel 16:13, 1 Samuel 16:18, 1 Samuel 16:22, 1 Samuel 17:15, 1 Samuel 17:28, 1 Samuel 17:29, 1 Samuel 18:23, Matthew 11:29, Acts 20:19, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Thessalonians 2:7, 1 Thessalonians 2:10
neither: Psalms 78:70-72, Jeremiah 17:16, Jeremiah 45:5, Amos 7:14, Amos 7:15, Romans 12:16
exercise: Heb. walk
high for me: Heb. wonderful for me, Psalms 139:6, Job 42:3, Romans 11:33
Reciprocal: Esther 6:12 - came again Psalms 130:7 - Let Israel Proverbs 6:17 - A proud look Proverbs 25:6 - in the presence Proverbs 30:13 - General Matthew 18:4 - humble Mark 10:14 - for Luke 18:17 - General 1 Corinthians 14:20 - malice
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lord, my heart is not haughty,.... The heart of every man is naturally so, and everything in civil life tends to make it more so; as riches and honour, birth and blood, wisdom, knowledge, and learning, strength and beauty, especially where there is a superiority of those to others; and in religious if persons have not the true grace of God, their hearts will be haughty; if they have a notion of the purity of human nature, and the goodness of their hearts, and are pure in their own eyes, and of the power of their free will to do this and the other, and of their perfection in good works, and are full of their own righteousness, and have some external gifts, and some degree of notional knowledge; but if the heart is made truly contrite under a sense of sin, and is melted with discoveries of pardoning love, it will be humble and not haughty: and those have such hearts who have seen the haughtiness of their hearts, and the exceeding sinfulness of sin; their impotency to that which is spiritually good; their imperfection in all they do; the excellency and suitableness of Christ's righteousness, and that all their salvation is of grace, and that grace is entirely free; and the more spiritual knowledge and experience they have, the more humble they are: and this was David's case, and what he here said was no doubt true, since he hated lying; and besides he speaks this in the presence of and to God the searcher of hearts; though he had been anointed by Samuel, and knew that he was to be successor in the kingdom, yet his heart was not elated with it;
nor mine eyes lofty; or "lifted up" l, they were lifted up to God in prayer often, out not above his fellow creatures; he behaved himself humbly as well as wisely in Saul's court, where he was raised to great dignity, which gained him the affections of the court, and of all Israel; but there are too many whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up, who disdain to look upon those that are inferior to them, as the rich on the poor, the Pharisee on the publican; see Proverbs 30:13. This is the character of antichrist, that his look is more stout than his fellows, and is abominable in the sight of God, even a proud look as well as a proud heart, Proverbs 6:17. But this was not David's case; as he could not bear this in others he would not suffer it in himself,
Psalms 101:5;
neither do I exercise myself in great matters; or, "walk" m in them; these were not the subject of his employment and conversation; he did many great things, in killing the lion and the bear that came into his father's flock; in slaying Goliath with a sling and stone only; in leading out the armies of Israel, and slaying his ten thousands; and he exercised himself in the great things of the law, which he was careful to observe, and studied the great things of the Gospel, which he had the highest esteem of, and desired to understand; but he did not seek human greatness, or the great things of this world, for himself; he had no ambitious views, or was desirous of the kingdom he was anointed to, before the proper time; see 1 Samuel 18:18;
or in things too high for me: or "too wonderful" n; see Job 42:3. He contemplated the wonderful make and frame of his body, the texture, symmetry, and use of each of its parts; he observed the wonderful providences of God towards him ever since he had a being; and particularly he took notice of the wonderful love of God to him, and remembered and talked of, and declared, the wonderful works of grace and redemption; but not things above his capacity, out of his reach, and which are secret, or not clearly revealed: and such things we should be content to be ignorant of, or not to have adequate ideas of, or be capable of accounting for; as the being and perfections of God, particularly his immensity and eternity; the mode of subsisting of the Persons in the Godhead; the generation of the Son and procession of the Spirit; the incarnation of Christ, and the union of the two natures in him; present providences, unsearchable and past finding out; and future things, especially the times and seasons of them; see Psalms 139:6.
l רמו "elati", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, &c. m הלכתי "ambulavi", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Cocceius, &c. n בנפלאות ממני "in mirabilibus prae me", Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Lord, my heart is not haughty - Though this is charged upon me; though I may have said things which seem to imply it; though this might appear a just inference from my conduct - yet I am conscious that this is not my real character. What I have said was not the result of ambition.
Nor mine eyes lofty - I am conscious that I am not ambitious and aspiring - as I am accused of being. What I have said is not the result of such a feeling, nor should such a charge be brought against me.
Neither do I exercise myself - Margin, as in Hebrew, walk. I do not walk about among such things; I do not pry into them; I do not meddle with them. What I have said or done is not, as has been said concerning me, the result of a meddlesome and interfering spirit. It may seem to be so; my own consciousness tells me it is not so. The interpretation put upon my conduct may be natural; but I am conscious to myself that it is not the right interpretation.
In great matters, or in things too high for me - Margin, as in Hebrew, wonderful. The word wonderful would apply to matters suited to excite astonishment by their vastness, or their unusual nature - as prodigies or miracles; and then, great and lofty truths. It would apply also to things which might be regarded as far above the capacity of a child, or of one in obscure life, and with slight advantages of education; and, as above suggested, it may have been the accusation brought against him, that, in respect to public matters, matters of state - or to the more elevated doctrines of religion - he had manifested a spirit unbecoming one in early years, and of humble rank, and that this indicated a desire to meddle with matters which he could not understand, and which could not pertain to him. He was conscious, he says, that he was not actuated by that spirit.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM CXXXI
The psalmist professes his humility, and the peaceableness of
his disposition and conduct, 1, 2.
Exhorts Israel to hope in God, 3.
NOTES ON PSALM CXXXI
Some think that David composed this Psalm as a vindication of himself, when accused by Saul's courtiers that he affected the crown, and was laying schemes and plots to possess himself of it. Others think the Psalm was made during the captivity, and that it contains a fair account of the manner in which the captives behaved themselves, under the domination of their oppressors.
Verse Psalms 131:1. Lord, my heart is not haughty — The principle of pride has no place in my heart; and consequently the high, lofty, and supercilious look does not appear in my eyes. I neither look up, with desire to obtain, to the state of others, nor look down with contempt to the meanness or poverty of those below me. And the whole of my conduct proves this; for I have not exercised myself-walked, in high matters, nor associated myself with the higher ranks of the community, nor in great matters, נפלאות niphlaoth, wonderful or sublime things; too high for me, ממני mimmeni, alien from me, and that do not belong to a person in my sphere and situation in life.
