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Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
Psalms 62:8 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • KJV Trust in him at all times; ye 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
  • 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 4:6In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
  • Lam 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
  • Isa 26:4Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
  • Ps 142:2I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
  • 1 Sam 1:15Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
  • Ps 18:2Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
  • Ps 22:4–5Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
  • Ps 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
  • Heb 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Isa 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
  • Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
  • Ps 102:1A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh. Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
  • 1 Jn 2:28Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
  • Ps 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
  • Prov 14:26In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
  • Ps 34:1–2By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
  • Ps 46:11Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
  • Isa 50:10Who among you fears Yahweh, and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 62:8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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