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Psalm 131: Domine, non est

Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 785. In the 30-day Psalter it is read on day 27, at Evening Prayer.

1

O LORD, I am not proud; *

I have no haughty looks.

2

I do not occupy myself with great matters, *

or with things that are too hard for me.

3

But I still my soul and make it quiet,

like a child upon its mother's breast; *

my soul is quieted within me.

4

O Israel, wait upon the LORD, *

from this time forth for evermore.

When it is appointed