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Verse Psalms 62:10. _TRUST NOT IN OPPRESSION_] Do not suppose that my
unnatural son and his partisans can succeed.
_BECOME NOT VAIN IN ROBBERY_] If ye have laid your hands on the
spoils of my house,...
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TRUST NOT IN OPPRESSION - The general meaning here is, that we are not
to trust in anything but God. In the previous verse the psalmist had
stated reasons why we should not trust in men of any rank. I...
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Psalms 62
Waiting and Trusting
_ 1. He only (Psalms 62:1)_
2. Persecuted (Psalms 62:3)
3. My expectation from him (Psalms 62:5
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LXII. REST IN GOD. The Psalmist, who is closely allied in thought and
style to the author of Psalms 4, exhorts to complete trust in God. He
expresses his trust in Psalms 62:1 f., his rest in Psalms 62...
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HEART. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for the
affections connected with it....
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Trust in God, I say, and not in man or in material force. God's
strength and love are the guarantee for the punishment of the wicked
and the reward of the righteous....
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The first two lines (cp. Psalms 62:9 _a_, Psalms 62:11 _a, b_) are a
rhythmical division of what is logically one sentence: put not vain
trust in oppression and robbery." Do not rely, for you will onl...
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TRUST NOT IN OPPRESSION, &C.— _Trust not in oppression and rapine;
become not vain: If riches,_ &c. Psalms 62:11. _One thing God hath
pronounced; there are two which I have heard;_ Psalms 62:12 that p...
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PSALMS 62
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Restful Resolution, Exposing the Treacherous and Encouraging the
Timorous, traces both Power and Kindness to God the Judge of All.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 62:1-4, Cou...
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_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._
-Warning against trust in anyone or anything except God, to...
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This is a Ps. of the strongest faith, in which the experience of
hostility (Psalms 62:3) and the contemplation of life (Psalms 62:9)
only provide the background against which a serene confidence in Go...
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PSALMS 42:72
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end.
The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
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IF RICHES INCREASE. — Even if by honest means you grow rich,
distrust your wealth....
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_[Psalms 62:11]_ אַל ־תִּבְטְח֣וּ בְ עֹשֶׁק֮
וּ...
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Psalms 62:1
THERE are several points of affinity between this psalm and the
thirty-ninth-such as the frequent use of the particle of asseveration
or restriction ("surely" or "only"); the rare and beau...
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OUR ONLY ROCK AND REFUGE
Psalms 62:1
This is the “Only” Psalm. It consists of three stanzas, each of
which begins with that word and ends with _Selah._ It was probably
composed during Absalom's rebe...
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In this psalm the principle of the last is yet more emphatically
expressed. It opens with the declaration: My soul waiteth only upon
God, and then proceeds in three stanzas to set forth this fact.
The...
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Trust not in oppression, and (h) become not vain in robbery: if riches
increase, set not your heart [upon them].
(h) Give yourselves wholly to God by putting away all things that are
contrary to his...
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Earth. To seek me out, (Houbigant) or they shall perish. The
Babylonians were exposed to many miseries under Cyrus, as the prophets
assert, (Isaias xiii. 1., and Jeremias xxv. 12.) though profane
hist...
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Here are additional reasons urged for our firm reliance on the Lord,
because all other trusts must deceive, and prove vain. And the
Psalmist takes an instance, in proof, from the deceitfulness of
rich...
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10_Trust not in oppression and robbery _We are here taught that there
can be no real trusting in God until we put away all those vain
confidences which prove so many means of turning us away from him....
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In Psalms 62 confidence is more expressed. It is not looking from an
overwhelmed heart, but a free looking up, so that one is not
overwhelmed. His soul waits on God, has none else indeed, but does not...
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TRUST NOT IN OPPRESSION,.... Either in the power of oppressing others;
see Isaiah 30:12; or in riches gotten by oppression, which being put
into a man's hand by his friend, he keeps, and will not retu...
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_Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches
increase, set not your heart [upon them]._
Ver. 10. _Trust not in oppression, &c._] In the fail of persons. Some
may think that thi...
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_Trust not in oppression_ That is, in riches gotten by fraud and
violence; or in the arts of acquiring them. As you must not trust in
any other men, so neither must you trust to yourselves, nor to you...
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TRUST IN GOD IN THE FACE OF GREAT DANGER.
To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, the special choirmaster being
named who should take charge of this hymn for use in public worship, a
psalm of David, appa...
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Trust not in oppression, by which men of might hoped to enrich
themselves, AND BECOME NOT VAIN IN ROBBERY, placing a foolish
confidence in the results of small and great speculations; IF RICHES
INCREA...
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8-12 Those who have found the comfort of the ways of God themselves,
will invite others into those ways; we shall never have the less for
others sharing with us. the good counsel given is, to trust w...
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Psalms 62:10 trust H982 (H8799) oppression H6233 hope H1891 (H8799)
robbery H1498 riches H2428 increase H5107 ...
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3). HE WARNS AGAINST TRUSTING IN MAN OF ANY LEVEL, OR IN BRUTE FORCE,
OR IN RICHES, AND CALLS ON HIS HEARERS TO RECOGNISE THE FACT THAT
POWER AND TRUE LOVE BELONG TO GOD WHO DEALS WITH MEN ON THE BASI...
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In this Psalm the royal singer casts himself entirely on God. Here we
see the foundation of his expectation laid bare. He has no confidence
anywhere but in God. The Psalm begins in the original with t...
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Psalms 62:1. _Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my
salvation._
Waiting upon God, if not true and sincere, is only a mockery; it is
also an insult to the Lord; and, so far from bringing...
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CONTENTS: David professes his confidence in God and encourages himself
to wait on God.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: Hope in God will always be an anchor to the soul, sure and
steadfast. Thoug...
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This psalm is inscribed to Jeduthun, leader of a choral band in the
temple. 1 Chronicles 6:41. Both this and Psalms 63., have been
understood as composed in the wilderness, though some would refer thi...
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_If riches increase, set not your heart upon them._
THE INCREASE OF WEALTH
I. Here is a circumstance which most desire. Who does not desire the
increase of his secular possessions? This desire is vi...
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_Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from Him cometh my salvation._
A TESTIMONY AND AN EXHORTATION
I. A religious testimony.
1. Concerning self (Psalms 62:1; Psalms 62:6). His confidence in God
was--...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 62:1. God’s people sing this psalm for
encouragement as they are oppressed by powerful, wealthy people. In
such a situation, it would be easy to despair, or else to seek
sec...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 62:8 After speaking to his own soul (vv. Psalms
62:5), the singer now addresses the whole congregation (O PEOPLE). He
urges them to trust in God and
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician_.” See introduction to
Psalms 57. “_To Jeduthun_.” See introduction to Psalms 39. “_A
Psalm of David_.” “There are no historical statements or de...
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EXPOSITION
THIS psalm, like so many, is the cry of an afflicted one—a man of
high position, whom his enemies seek to destroy, or, if that be not
possible, to thrust down from his dignity (Psalms 62:3,...
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Psa 62:1-12, another psalm of David.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: and from him comes my salvation. He
only is my rock (Psalms 62:1)
So remember the last one, "Lead me to the Rock that is higher t...
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1 Timothy 6:17; Deuteronomy 6:10; Deuteronomy 8:12; Isaiah 28:15;...
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Vain — Feeding yourselves with vain hopes of felicity, from those
riches which you take from others by violence....