² See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.

²⁰ My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

¹ Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.

² In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

¹⁵ Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

³ And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

⁴ Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

²⁶ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

¹⁵ For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.

¹⁹ By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.

⁵ Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

¹¹ Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

⁵ Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

¹¹ And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, You see how my son, the offspring of my body, has made designs against my life: how much more then may this Benjamite do so? Let him be, and let him go on cursing; for the Lord has given him orders.

¹² It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

²⁵ And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back into the town: if I have grace in the eyes of the Lord, he will let me come back and see it and his House again:

²⁶ But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.

⁶ And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

³² And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:

³³ A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.

¹⁰ And David said to Saul, Why do you give any attention to those who say that it is my desire to do you wrong?