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This psalm is ascribed to David as his own composition (though it is outside the number[a]), after he had fought in single combat with Goliath.

I was small among my brothers,
    and the youngest in my father’s house;
I tended my father’s sheep.

My hands made a harp;
    my fingers fashioned a lyre.

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  1. Psalm 151 1:1 Other ancient authorities add of the one hundred and fifty (psalms)

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