Psalms 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Study Note
Study Note
The exhortation 'trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us' is the communal application of David's personal confidence in God as rock and refuge (62:1-2, 6-7). The phrase 'pour out your heart before him' presents prayer not as formal address but as radical emotional transparency — the full unfiltered expression of inner experience before God. This contrasts the empty trust in human power and wealth criticized in 62:9-10 and anticipates Paul's injunction to be 'anxious for nothing' but to pray with thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6). The 'Selah' following this verse invites musical and contemplative pause — a moment to absorb the exhortation before continuing.
Other Translations
Trust in him at all times, ye people; Pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. [Selah
Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God <FI>is<Fi> a refuge for us. Selah.
Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)
Cross References
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither …
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and …
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known …
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.