Psalms 131:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

A song of high degrees (made) of Dauid. O God I am not hygh mynded, I haue no proude lokes: I haue not vsed to walke in greater & waightier matters then I ought to do.

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  • Rom 12:16 : 16 Beyng of lyke affection one towardes another, beyng not hye mynded: but makyng your selues equall to them of the lower sort. Be not wise in your owne opinions,
  • Job 42:3 : 3 For who can keepe his owne counsaile so secrete but it shalbe knowen? Therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstoode not, euen the thinges that are to wonderfull for me, and passe myne vnderstanding.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 The knowledge that thou hast of me is marueylous: it is so high that I can not attayne vnto it.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 I will destroy him who priuily slaundereth his neighbour: I wyll not suffer hym who hath a proude loke and a great stomacke.
  • Jer 45:5 : 5 And seekest thou yet promotion looke not for it, and desire it not, for I wyll bryng a miserable plague vpon all flesh saith the Lorde: but thy lyfe wyll I geue thee for a pray in all places whythersoeuer thou goest.
  • Amos 7:14-15 : 14 Then aunswered Amos, and sayde to Amazia, I was no prophete, neither was I a prophetes sonne: but I was an heardeman, and a gatherer of wilde figges. 15 And the Lorde toke me as I folowed the flocke, and the Lord sayde vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.
  • Matt 11:29 : 29 Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me, for I am meeke & lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.
  • Acts 20:19 : 19 Seruyng the Lorde with all humblenesse of mynde, and with many teares, and temptations whiche came vnto me by the layinges awayte of the Iewes:
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O the deepenesse of the ryches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God, howe vnsearcheable are his iudgementes, and his wayes past fyndyng out?
  • 1 Thess 2:6-7 : 6 Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor yet of others: 7 When we myght haue ben in auctoritie, as the Apostles of Christe, but we were tender among you, euen as a nource cherissheth her chyldren,
  • 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 Ye are witnesses, & God also howe holyly, and iustly, and vnblameably, we behaued our selues among you that beleue.
  • Ps 122:1 : 1 A song of high degrees of Dauid. I was glad when they sayde vnto me: we wyll go into the house of God.
  • Ps 124:1 : 1 A song of high degrees, of Dauid. If God him selfe had not ben of our side Israel may now say:
  • Ps 133:1 : 1 A song of high degrees (made) of Dauid. Beholde howe good and howe pleasaunt a thing it is: that brethren dwel together in vnitie.
  • Jer 17:16 : 16 Wheras I neuerthelesse obediently folowed thee as a sheephearde, & haue not vncalled taken this office vpon me, this knowest thou well: my wordes also were ryght before thee.
  • Ps 78:70-72 : 70 He chose also Dauid his seruaunt: and toke hym away from the sheepefoldes. 71 As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce. 72 So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart: and guided them by the discretion of his handes.
  • Num 12:3 : 3 (But Moyses was a very meeke man, aboue all the men of the earth.)
  • Deut 17:20 : 20 And that his heart arise not aboue his brethren, and that he turne not from the commaundement to the right hand or to the left: but that he may prolong his dayes in his kyngdome, he and his children in the middes of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 16:13 : 13 Therefore Samuel toke the horne with the annoyntment, and annoynted him in the middes of his brethren. And the spirite of the Lorde came vpon Dauid from that daye forwarde: And Samuel rose vp, and went to Rama.
  • 1 Sam 16:18 : 18 The aunswered one of his seruauntes and said: Beholde, I haue seene a sonne of Isai the Bethlehemite, that can play vpon instrumentes, and is strong, valiaunt, and a man of warre, and prudent in doing of feates, and well made, and the Lorde is with him.
  • 1 Sam 16:22 : 22 And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let Dauid nowe remaine with me, for he hath founde fauour in my sight.
  • 1 Sam 17:15 : 15 Dauid also went, and departed from Saul, to feede his fathers sheepe at Bethlehem.
  • 1 Sam 17:28-29 : 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake vnto the men, and Eliab was angrye with Dauid, & sayde: Why camest thou downe hyther? and with whom hast thou left those fewe sheepe in the wildernes: I know thy pride and the malice of thyne heart, that thou art come downe to see the battel. 29 And Dauid sayde: And what haue I nowe done? is there not a cause?
  • 1 Sam 18:23 : 23 And Sauls seruauntes spake those wordes in the eares of Dauid. And Dauid said: semeth it to you a light thing to be a kinges sonne in lawe? seeing that I am a poore man, and of smal reputation.

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