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This psalm is David's profession of humility, humbly made, with thankfulness to God for his grace, and not in vain-glory. It is probable enough that (as most interpreters suggest) David made this protestation in answer to the calumnies of Saul and his courtiers, who represented David as an ambitious aspiring man, who, under pretence of a divine appointment, sought the kingdom, in the pride of his heart. But he appeals to God, that, on the contrary, I. He aimed at nothing high nor great, Ps 131:1. II. He was very easy in every condition which God allotted him (Ps 131:2); and therefore, III. He encourages all good people to trust in God as he did, Ps 131:3. Some have made it an objection against singing David's psalms that there are many who cannot say, "My heart is not haughty," etc. It is true there are; but we may sing it for the same purpose that we read it, to teach and admonish ourselves, and one another, what we ought to be, with repentance that we have come short of being so, and humble prayer to God for his grace to make us so.
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Humble Confidence
谦卑的信赖
大卫的上行之诗。
¹ 耶和华啊，我的心不狂傲，我的眼不高大；重大和测不透的事，我也不敢行。
² 我的心平稳安静，好像断过奶的孩子在他母亲怀中；我的心在我里面真像断过奶的孩子。
³ 以色列啊，你当仰望耶和华，从今时直到永远。
此处有两件事可作我们的安慰——
一、对自己正直的良心自觉。这正是大卫的喜乐——他的内心能为他作见证，他虽处在责难之下、诱惑之中，仍存谦卑的心与神同行。
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他并未贪图高位的境遇，也不渴望在世上出人头地；若神如此安排，他本可甘心像他早年那样，在羊圈中度过一生的岁月。他的亲哥哥在怒气中指责他骄傲（撒上17:28），但这指责毫无根据、极不公义。鉴察人心的神知道：（1）他对自己的功劳并无自高之见：耶和华啊，我的心不狂傲。谦卑的圣徒不能像别人看待他们那样看好自己，他们不爱慕自己的影子，也不高举自己的成就或功劳。神的爱一旦在心中掌权，就必制服一切越分的自爱。（2）他既无轻蔑的眼神，也无僭越的目光：我的眼不高大——既不因嫉妒而仰望高于我的人，也不因蔑视而俯视低于我的人。心里骄傲之处，眼目通常也显出骄傲（箴6:17），但谦卑的税吏连举目也不敢。（3）他不经营自己地位以上的事——重大和测不透的事我也不敢行。他不在过于高深的研究上用工夫；他以神的话语为默想，并不以巧妙的揣测或可疑的争辩自娱，也不贪图明白过于所记之事。认识神和我们当尽的本分，就是对我们而言足够高深的学习。他不在过于宏大的事务上用工夫；他跟随自己的母羊，从未充当政治家；不，也从未充当军人；因为当他的兄长们去出征的时候，他留在家里牧羊。守在自己的本位里，不窥探所未见的事，不插手与自己无干的事——这既是我们的智慧，也是我们的称赞。君王与学者也不可经营过于重大、过于高深的事；身处低位、才能平凡的人，更不可妄求自己够不着、并不适合自己的事。贪图非分之荣的人，必蒙受当得的羞辱。
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他对神所安置他的任何境遇都完全顺服（诗131:2）：我的心平稳安静，好像断过奶的孩子在他母亲怀中。他既未骄傲地贪图王位，那么自神立他为王之后，他也未对任何人态度傲慢，也未焦躁地图谋在所定之先夺取冠冕；反倒是：（1）他像断奶孩童那样谦卑——可管教可引导，远离高位的企图；完全任凭神支配，如同孩童任凭母亲或保姆支配；虽受膏为王，却不摆出威仪，也不因未来高升的指望而自高——正如怀中的孩童。我们的救主曾用这比方教导我们谦卑（太18:3）：我们必须变成小孩子的样式。（2）他对世俗的财富与尊荣，正如孩子彻底断奶之后对母乳那样冷淡。我的心平稳安静（哈蒙德博士如此译）好像断过奶的孩子。这表明我们的心天然地贪求世俗之物，正如婴儿贪求母乳一样——同样地品味它、为它哭闹、贪恋它、玩弄它、不能没有它；但藉着神的恩典，已蒙成圣的灵魂就从这些事上断奶了。护理将苦艾放在母乳之上，这有助于使我们断奶。孩子在断奶时或许烦躁易怒，自以为失了母乳便一切都完了；但一两天之后便已忘怀，烦躁已过，它也能很好地适应新的喂养方式，不再恋慕奶，却能吃干粮。蒙恩的灵魂也是如此：在失去所爱之物、所盼望之事落空时，安静下来；无论遭遇何事都安然，并在受造之物显为枯干之乳时，仍因神与圣约之恩而活、并安乐度日。当我们的境遇不合心意时，我们必须把心意调到与境遇相合；那时我们对自己和周围的人都觉安然；那时我们的心便如断过奶的孩子。
二、对神的信靠；这信靠大卫向一切属神的以色列人推荐，无疑出于他自己经历其中的益处（诗131:3）：以色列啊，你当仰望耶和华——并要从今时直到永远持续如此行。大卫虽能自己耐心安静地等候为他所定的冠冕，但以色列——那以他为宠儿的百姓——或许会在时辰未到之前就急于为他采取什么行动；因此他也力图使他们安静下来，劝他们仰望耶和华，相信到了时候必看见事务面貌的可喜改变。仰望耶和华的救恩，安静等候，这样为美。
英文原文
Humble Confidence
A song of degrees of David.
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.
² Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
³ Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
Here are two things which will be comforts to us:—
I. Consciousness of our integrity. This was David's rejoicing, that his heart could witness for him that he had walked humbly with his God, notwithstanding the censures he was under and the temptations he was in.
1. He aimed not at a high condition, nor was he desirous of making a figure in the world, but, if God had so ordered, could have been well content to spend all his days, as he did in the beginning of them, in the sheep-folds. His own brother, in a passion, charged him with pride (1Sa 17:28), but the charge was groundless and unjust. God, who searches the heart, knew, (1.) That he had no conceited opinion of himself, or his own merits: Lord, my heart is not haughty. Humble saints cannot think so well of themselves as others think of them, are not in love with their own shadow, nor do they magnify their own attainments or achievements. The love of God reigning in the heart will subdue all inordinate self-love. (2.) That he had neither a scornful nor an aspiring look: "My eyes are not lofty, either to look with envy upon those that are above me or to look with disdain upon those that are below me." Where there is a proud heart there is commonly a proud look (Pr 6:17), but the humble publican will not so much as lift up his eyes. (3.) That he did not employ himself in things above his station, in things too great or too high for him. He did not employ himself in studies too high; he made God's word his meditation, and did not amuse himself with matters of nice speculation or doubtful disputation, or covet to be wise above what is written. To know God and our duty is learning sufficiently high for us. He did not employ himself in affairs too great; he followed his ewes, and never set up for a politician; no, nor for a soldier; for, when his brethren went to the wars, he staid at home to keep the sheep. It is our wisdom, and will be our praise, to keep within our sphere, and not to intrude into things which we have not seen, or meddle with that which does not belong to us. Princes and scholars must not exercise themselves in matters too great, too high, for men: and those in a low station, and of ordinary capacities, must not pretend to that which is out of their reach, and which they were not cut out for. Those will fall under due shame that affect undue honours.
2. He was well reconciled to every condition that God placed him in (Ps 131:2): I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother. As he had not proudly aimed at the kingdom, so, since God had appointed him to it, he had not behaved insolently towards any, nor been restless in his attempts to get the crown before the time set; but, (1.) He had been as humble as a little child about the age of a weanling, as manageable and governable, and as far from aiming at high things; as entirely at God's disposal as the child at the disposal of the mother or nurse; as far from taking state upon him, though anointed to be king, or valuing himself upon the prospect of his future advancement, as a child in the arms. Our Saviour has taught us humility by this comparison (Mt 18:3); we must become as little children. (2.) He had been as indifferent to the wealth and honour of this world as a child is to the breast when it is thoroughly weaned from it. I have levelled and quieted myself (so Dr. Hammond reads it) as a child that is weaned. This intimates that our hearts are naturally as desirous of worldly things as the babe is of the breast, and in like manner relish them, cry for them, are fond of them, play with them, and cannot live without them. But, by the grace of God, a soul that is sanctified, is weaned from those things. Providence puts wormwood upon the breast, and that helps to wean us. The child is perhaps cross and fretful while it is in the weaning and thinks itself undone when it has lost the breast. But in a day or two it is forgotten; the fret is over, and it accommodates itself well enough to a new way of feeding, cares no longer for milk, but can bear strong meat. Thus does a gracious soul quiet itself under the loss of that which it loved and disappointment in that which it hoped for, and is easy whatever happens, lives, and lives comfortably, upon God and the covenant-grace, when creatures prove dry breasts. When our condition is not to our mind we must bring our mind to our condition; and then we are easy to ourselves and all about us; then our souls are as a weaned child.
II. Confidence in God; and this David recommends to all Israel of God, no doubt from his own experience of the benefit of it (Ps 131:3): Let Israel hope in the Lord, and let them continue to do so henceforth and for ever. Though David could himself wait patiently and quietly for the crown designed him, yet perhaps Israel, the people whose darling he was, would be ready to attempt something in favour of him before the time; and therefore endeavours to quiet them too, and bids them hope in the Lord that they should see a happy change of the face of affairs in due time. Thus it is good to hope and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord.
本篇是大卫的谦卑之宣告,以谦卑作之,为神的恩典献上感恩,而非为求虚浮的荣耀。极有可能(正如大多数解经家所提示)大卫作此声明,是为答复扫罗与其廷臣的诽谤——他们描绘大卫为野心勃勃、心高气傲之人,假借神所立之名以求国位。但他向神申诉:正相反,一、他所志不在任何高超之事(诗131:1);二、他在神所分配给他的任何境遇里都很安然(诗131:2);故此,三、他勉励一切善人如他一样信靠神(诗131:3)。有人反对唱大卫的诗篇,理由是有许多人不能说「我心不狂傲」等话。确实有这样的人;但我们可以为同样的目的而唱,正如我们为同样的目的而读——为要教导并劝戒自己与彼此,我们当成为怎样的人,并为自己未达此境而悔改,谦卑求神的恩典使我们如此。