Psalms 131 - Introduction

CXXXI.

The most perfect and sincere resignation breathes through this short poem. It is so plain from the last verse, that not an individual, but Israel, is here represented, that we need not stay to discuss the addition to the inscription, which makes David its author (probably with recollection of 2 Samuel 6:22), or to conjecture whether Nehemiah or Simon Maccabæus, or any other particular person, has left here an expression of his feelings.

1) “Pride has its seat in the heart, looks forth at the eyes, and expresses itself in the actions.”

Do I exercise. — Rather, have I been in the practice of; literally, have walked in (see Vulg.) or gone into. The conjugation denotes repeated action, and the past is used, as so frequently, with notion of continuance into the present.