Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Parallel translations
- WEB Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
- BSB Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
- NKJV Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
- NASB Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your hearts before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
- NLT O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge. Interlude
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Quick answer
David calls God's people to trust him always and pour out their hearts to him, for he is their refuge. It invites all believers into the same confidence.
Overview
Having testified to his own trust, David urges the whole congregation to rely on God at all times and bring their hearts honestly before him. God is presented as a sure refuge for all his people. This open invitation to pour out the heart anticipates the access believers enjoy through Christ. The Selah marks a pause to take it to heart.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Phil 4:6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
- Lam 2:19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
- Isa 26:4Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
- Ps 142:2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
- 1 Sam 1:15And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
- Ps 18:2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
- Ps 22:4–5Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
- Ps 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
- Heb 6:18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
- Isa 26:16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Ps 102:1Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
- 1 Jn 2:28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
- Ps 37:3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
- Prov 14:26In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- Ps 34:1–2I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
- Ps 46:11The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Isa 50:10Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
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