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A humble heart: “I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother.”

Israel’s prayer book and song book: 150 prayers and songs of praise, lament, trust, thanks and confession. They give words for every season of the soul and are still prayed by Jews and Christians today.

Mainly David, with Asaph, the sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses and others · Over about 1,000 years, from Moses to after the exile

¹A Song of degrees of David. 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.²Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.³Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever.

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