Psalms 131:2

In 11 translations

BSB

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.myself: Heb. my soul

WEB

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

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.

LSV

Have I not compared, and kept my soul silent, || As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me [is] my soul.

YLT

Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me [is] my soul.

DBY

Surely I have restrained and composed my soul, like a weaned child with its mother: my soul within me is as a weaned child.

DRC130:2

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.

GNV

Surely I haue behaued my selfe, like one wained from his mother, and kept silence: I am in my selfe as one that is wained.

JPS

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

LXXE130:2

I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exalted my soul: according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so wilt thou recompense my soul.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אִם־לֹ֤א שִׁוִּ֨יתִי ׀ וְדוֹמַ֗מְתִּי נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י כְּ֭גָמֻל עֲלֵ֣י אִמּ֑וֹ כַּגָּמֻ֖ל עָלַ֣י נַפְשִֽׁי׃

LXX-Br130:2

Εἰ μὴ ἐταπεινοφρόνουν, ἀλλὰ ὕψωσα τὴν ψυχήν μου· ὡς τὸ ἀπογεγαλακτισμένον ἐπὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἀνταποδώσεις ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχήν μου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Mark 10:15Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
• 1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
• Psalms 43:5Why 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.
• Lamentations 3:26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
• Psalms 42:11Why 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.
• Matthew 18:3–4“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of…
• John 14:1–2“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
• Psalms 62:1In God alone my soul finds rest; my salvation comes from Him.
• Isaiah 30:15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”
• Luke 21:19By your patient endurance you will gain your souls.
• Psalms 42:5Why 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.
• 1 Samuel 30:6And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
• 2 Samuel 15:25–26Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again. But if He should say, ‘I do not…
• 1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the…
• 2 Samuel 16:11–12Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.…
• 1 Samuel 25:32–33Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day! Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself…

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