Psalm 131:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ Lord, MY heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in matters too great or in things too wonderful for me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.

Common English Bible

¹ LORD, my heart isn’t proud; my eyes aren’t conceited. I don’t get involved with things too great or wonderful for me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ A Canticle in steps. O Lord, remember David and all his meekness,

Psalm 131:1 Cross References

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Psalm 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Job 42:3

Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Jeremiah 45:5

And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

Psalm 101:5

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy: Him that hath an high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

Psalm 124:1

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, Let Israel now say;

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of the LORD.

Numbers 12:3

Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.

Matthew 11:29

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Psalm 133:1

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!

1 Samuel 18:23

And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

1 Samuel 16:22

And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.

1 Samuel 16:18

Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty man of valour, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.

1 Samuel 16:13

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

Deuteronomy 17:20

that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past tracing out!

Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews:

Jeremiah 17:16

As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

1 Samuel 17:15

Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

2 Samuel 6:22

And I will be yet more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: but of the handmaids which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

Proverbs 21:4

An high look, and a proud heart, Even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.