Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
English Revised Version

Psalms 131

1LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too wonderful for me. 2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, my soul is with me like a weaned child. 3O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.

English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.