As with a crushing in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, by saying to me all day, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 131:2 - Tree of Life Version But I have calmed and quieted my soul— like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, As a child that is weaned of his mother: My soul is even as a weaned child. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me [ceased from fretting]. American Standard Version (1901) Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me. Common English Bible No. But I have calmed and quieted myself like a weaned child on its mother; I’m like the weaned child that is with me. Catholic Public Domain Version how he swore to the Lord, how he made a vow to the God of Jacob: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob: |
As with a crushing in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, by saying to me all day, “Where is your God?”
These things I remember as I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng, walking with them to the House of God, with a voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a festival.
Why are You downcast, O my soul? Why are you murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance.
For thus says Adonai Elohim, the Holy One of Israel: “By repentance and rest you are saved, in quietness and trust is your strength— but you were not willing.”
Amen, I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it!”
Brothers and sisters, stop being children in your thinking—rather, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Look, today your own eyes should see how Adonai delivered you today into my hand, in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but my eye had pity on you, and I said: ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is Adonai’s anointed.’
So David was in a serious bind, for the troops were calling for his stoning, for all the troops were bitter of soul, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Adonai his God.