Psalms 131:2

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, the figure being that of a weaned child clinging with perfect contentment to his mother, as a child that is weaned of his mother, and therefore perfectly satisfied; my soul is even as a weaned child. "As the weaned child no longer cries, frets, and longs for the breast, but lies still and is content, because it is with its mother, so the poet's soul is weaned from all discontented thoughts, from all fretful desires for earthly good, waiting in stillness upon God, finding its satisfaction in His presence, resting peacefully in His arms. " The closing admonition, therefore, is a fitting addition: