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Open section I Have Stilled My Soul
A1 song of ascents. Of David. 2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; 3O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
Psalms
Chapter 131
I Have Stilled My Soul
This psalm is a brief confession of humility and quiet trust. The speaker rejects proud ambition and restless grasping after things too great, then describes the soul as stilled and quieted like a weaned child with its mother, before turning outward to call Israel to hope in the LORD now and forever.
Within the Songs of Ascents, Psalm 131 offers one of the Psalter's quietest pictures of faith. It fits Book V by showing that trust is not only the cry for help or the joy of restoration; it is also the refusal of self-importance and the learned stillness that rests in God and invites the whole people to do the same.
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Psalms 131
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