1 For Jeduthun, the music director. A psalm of David. Only in God do I find peace; my salvation comes from him. 2 He is the one who protects me and saves me; he keeps me safe so I will never be in danger. 3 How long are you going to attack me? All of you against one man! To you I'm just a broken wall, a collapsed fence. 4 They plan to throw me down from my high position; they love to tell lies. They say nice things to me, but inside they're cursing me. Selah. 5 Only in God do I find peace; my hope comes from him. 6 He is the one who protects me and saves me; he keeps me safe so I will not be in danger. 7 My salvation and my success come from God alone; God is my security and my protection. 8 My people, always trust in him. Pour out all your thoughts to him, for he is the one who looks after us. Selah. 9 Ordinary people are mere breaths, while leaders are just fakes. Put them all together and weigh them on scales and they wouldn't weigh more than air! 10 Don't trust in money made by extortion or robbery. Don't be proud of your wealth even if you are successful—don't make money what you live for. 11 God has already made it clear—I have heard it many times—power belongs to you, God. 12 You show us trustworthy love. You give back to people in return for what they've done.
Psalm 62 Free Bible Version
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Lamentations 3:25; Psalm 62:2; Isaiah 40:31; Psalm 37:7; Psalm 33:20
- 2 Psalm 18:2; 2 Corinthians 4:8–9; Psalm 62:6; Isaiah 26:4; Psalm 73:25–26
- 3 Jeremiah 4:14; Psalm 140:2; Psalm 82:2; Exodus 16:28; Isaiah 30:13–14
- 4 Psalm 55:21; Psalm 28:3; Psalm 5:9; Romans 7:22; Romans 1:32
- 5 Micah 7:7; Psalm 27:13–14; Lamentations 3:24–26; Psalm 42:11; Psalm 71:5
- 6 Psalm 62:2; Psalm 112:6; Psalm 16:8; Proverbs 10:30; Isaiah 45:17
- 7 Psalm 3:3; Isaiah 26:4; Psalm 94:22; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 95:1
- 8 Philippians 4:6; Isaiah 26:4; Lamentations 2:19; Psalm 142:2; 1 Samuel 1:15
- 9 Psalm 39:5; Isaiah 40:17; Isaiah 40:15; Psalm 118:9; Psalm 39:11
- 10 1 Timothy 6:17; Psalm 52:7; Jeremiah 17:11; 1 Timothy 6:10; Job 31:24–25
- 11 Revelation 19:1; Job 33:14; Isaiah 26:4; Psalm 68:34–35; Job 40:5
- 12 Matthew 16:27; Job 34:11; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Romans 2:6; Psalm 103:8
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
The title of it doth not detain us. For it is "Unto the end, in hymns, to David himself. "In hymns," to wit in praises. "Unto the end," to wit unto Christ....But the voice in this Psalm (if we are among the members of Him, and in the Body, even as upon His exhortation we have the boldness to trust) …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me." And again: "They bless with their mouth, but curse with their heart." And again it saith, "They loved Him with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue; but their heart was not right with Him, neither …
Also unto Thee, O God, belongeth mercy: for Thou wilt render unto every man according to his works." Now the expression, "Once hath He spoken," is to be understood as meaning "immovably," that is, unchangeably hath He spoken, inasmuch as He knows unchangeably all things which shall be, and all things which He will do.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Hast thou not heard, "If riches increase, set not your heart upon them?" Lo, thou art getting, thou art disquieted, not fruitlessly indeed, still in vain.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)