Psalms 131:3

Israel. Not "a liturgical addition", but used to link the three Psalms of this group together (Psalms 129:1; Psalms 130:7; Psalms 130:8; Psalms 131:3). For Israel is to find rest and peace where their kings (David, and Hezekiah) found it.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 131:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let Israel hope in the Lord ... - The connection would seem to require us to understand this as the assertion of him who had been accused of thou...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXXXI. Rest in God. The Psalmist accepts the place God gives him: he does not concern himself with great matters, i.e. with high positions or the...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever. Let Israel hope in the Lord - Act all as I have done; trust in him who is the God of justic...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let Israel hope, &c.— i.e. "Let all good men, all the children of God, in like manner, modestly place their confidence and hope in the Lord, as...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever. Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and forever. Hope in the Lord is the an...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A song of child-like resignation of one committing himself to God in time of trouble.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 131:1-3 A QUIET, because self-quieted, heart speaks here in quiet accents, not unlike the "crooning" of the peaceful child on its mother's...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Out of the Depths” Psalms 130:1-8 ; Psalms 131:1-3 The cry , Psalms 130:1-2 . The word Lord occurs as often as there are verses. The sou...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a brief psalm, but it is very full of beauty, as it sets forth the contentment of a restless soul in the will of God. It follows the last as...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS BLESSED Lord Jesus! whenever we think of humbleness, to whom shall we look for the brightest illustration of it, but to thee. Here, Lord...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever. What he did himself, and found it good for him to do, that he knew was good for others, a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever. Ver. 3. Let Israel hope ] See Psalms 130:7 .
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself Hebrew, שׁויתי ודוממתי נפשׁי, I have composed and hushed , or, rendered silent, my soul. When my mind...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Humble Confidence. A song of degrees of David. 1 L ORD , my heart...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Let all Israelites learn by my example to commit themselves to God in well-doing, and to fix all their hope and trust upon him alone.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “A Song of Degrees.” See introduction to Psalms 120 . In the superscription this Psalm is ascribed to David, and although it is so sho...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 131 We know not at what period of David's life this Psalm was written. We know not what matters they were which were too high for him to me...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 131:2-3 I. The text carries us into the region of thought. It recognises the responsibility of thinking. It presupposes the possibility of...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 131:1 . 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. I...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

David is supposed to have written this psalm in reply to the slanders of Saul's courtiers, that he was plotting treasons and aspiring to the crown....
The Biblical Illustrator

Lord, my heart is not haughty. The negative and positive excellencies of true religion I. Negative. 1. Freedom from superciliousness. 2....
The Biblical Illustrator

As a child that is weaned of its mother. The weaned soul hoping in the Lord In the same hour in which the soul of man is by grace weaned from i...
The Biblical Illustrator

Let Israel hope in the Lord. Hope in the Lord Humility is the root of hope. Hope is the blossom of meekness. As these graces of the true child...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This psalm has been said to be "like a string era Christian 'Lyre Innocentium'" (Bishop Alexander). It breathes the profoundest hum...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Humble Submission to God. A song of degrees of David, in which he expresses his feelings when exercising his royal authority and teaches proper su...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and forever, looking to Him alone for help and assistance, for sustenance and strength; for He resisteth...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 26:4 ; Jeremiah 17:7 ; Jeremiah 17:8 ; Psalms 115:18 ; Psalms 115:9-11 ; Psalms 130:7 ; Psalms 146:5

³ Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 131:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 131:3