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title: "Psalms 131 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary"
description: "Read Psalms 131 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved"
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 1 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.**

 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul *is* even as a weaned child.*

 3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.*
 
[Psalms 130](/study/psalms/130) [Psalms 132](/study/psalms/132)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
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](/kjv/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.

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