Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself, like a weaned child who no longer cries for its mother’s milk. Yes, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
- KJV Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
- BSB Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
- NKJV Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
- NASB I have certainly soothed and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child resting against his mother, My soul within me is like a weaned child.
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Quick answer
David has calmed his soul like a weaned child content with its mother. It pictures restful trust that no longer frets or grasps.
Overview
David compares his quieted soul to a weaned child resting peacefully with its mother, no longer crying for what it craves but simply content to be near. This is the peace of a heart settled in God rather than its own desires. Such rest is found fully in Christ, who gives peace to the weary and burdened.
Cross-references & the web
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- Mark 10:15Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
- 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
- Lam 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
- Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
- Matt 18:3–4and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
- John 14:1–2“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
- Isa 30:15For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
- Ps 62:1For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
- Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
- Luke 21:19“By your endurance you will win your lives.
- 1 Sam 30:6David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
- 1 Sam 24:10Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.
- 2 Sam 15:25–26The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;
- 2 Sam 16:11–12David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
- 1 Sam 25:32–33David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!
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