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Psalm 131:2

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131:2Indeed3 I am composed and quiet,4

like a young child carried by its mother;5

I am content like the young child I carry.6

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Footnotes

  1. 3 Or “but.”
  2. 4 Heb “I make level and make quiet my soul.”
  3. 5 Heb “like a weaned [one] upon his mother.”
  4. 6 Heb “like the weaned [one] upon me, my soul.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

like a weaned child with its mother;

like a weaned child is my soul within me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But I have calmed and quieted myself,

I am like a weaned child with its mother;

like a weaned child I am content.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Instead, I have calmed and quieted my soul

like a weaned child with its mother;

my soul is like a weaned child.

NLTNew Living Translation

Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself,

like a weaned child who no longer cries for its mother’s milk.

Yes, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul,

like a weaned child with its mother,

like the weaned child is my soul with me.

KJV 1900King James Version

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,

As a child that is weaned of his mother:

My soul is even as a weaned child.