Not Haughty Is My Heart

Not haughty is my heart,
Not lofty is my pride;
I do not seek to know the things
God’s wisdom hath denied.

With childlike trust, O Lord,
In Thee I calmly rest,
Contented as a little child
Upon its mother’s breast.

Ye people of the Lord,
In Him alone confide;
From this time forth and evermore
His wisdom be your guide.

Author: Unknown

This is a metrical paraphrase of Psalm 131. The text appears in many 19th- and early 20th-century hymnals and psalters (often in the 1880s–1910s) without a named author; it is sometimes labeled simply as 'from the Psalter' or 'anonymous.' No single well-known hymn writer (e.g., Watts, Wesley, Montgomery) is reliably credited with these exact lines.