Psalm 131
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.
1 Lord, I am not high-minded; I have | no proud | looks. ||
2 I do not exercise myself in great | matters • which | are 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.
3 But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, * like as a child that is | weaned • from his | mother: ||
yea, my soul is | even | as a • weaned | child. ||
4 O Israel, | trust • in the | Lord ||
from | this time | forth for • ever- | more. ||
About the Pointing
The text of the Coverdale Psalter follows the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer. The pointing, suitably adapted, is taken from Charles Macpherson, Edward C. Bairstow, and Percy C. Buck, The English Psalter (Novello & Co., 1925).