KJV King James Version
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
WEB World English Bible
Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
Trust in him at all times, ye people; Pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 62
5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from him.
6 He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defence; I shall not be moved.
7 In God [is] my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, [and] my refuge, [is] in God.
8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
9 Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.
10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].
11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power [belongeth] unto God.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בִּטְח֘וּH982 · ba.tachto trustב֤וֹH9033 · ohimבְכָל־H3605 · kolallעֵ֨ת׀H6256 · ettimeעָ֗םH5971 · ampeopleשִׁפְכֽוּ־H8210 · sha.phakhto pour: pourלְפָנָ֥יוH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeלְבַבְכֶ֑םH3824 · le.vavheartאֱלֹהִ֖יםH430 · e.lo.himGodמַחֲסֶה־H4268 · ma.cha.sehrefugeלָּ֣נוּH9035 · nuusסֶֽלָה׃H5542 · se.lahSelah
Cross-references
Philippians 4:6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.Lamentations 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.Isaiah 26:4Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting strength:Psalm 142:2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.1 Samuel 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.Psalm 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.Psalm 22:4-5Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.Psalm 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.Hebrews 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:Isaiah 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.Psalm 37:3Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.1 John 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.Psalm 102:1A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.Proverbs 14:26In the fear of the LORD [is] strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.Psalm 34:1-2[A Psalm] of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be] in my mouth.Psalm 46:11The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.Isaiah 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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