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.
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; …
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I …
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.