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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 62:10

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, do not imagine that these ill-gotten riches will prosper. God will soon scatter them to all the winds of heaven. All oppressors come to an untimely end; and all property acquired by injustice has God's curse on it.

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See also Psalms 62:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 62 Waiting and Trusting _ 1. He only (Psalms 62:1)_ 2. Persecuted (Psalms 62:3) 3. My expectation from him (Psalms 62:5

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HEART. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for the affections connected with it....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IF RICHES INCREASE. — Even if by honest means you grow rich, distrust your wealth....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 62:11]_ אַל ־תִּבְטְח֣וּ בְ עֹשֶׁק֮ וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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....

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TRUST NOT IN OPPRESSION; as you may not trust any other men, so neither must you trust to yourselves, nor to your own wit, or industry, or courage, by which you may oppress others, and so think to sec...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 62:10 trust H982 (H8799) oppression H6233 hope H1891 (H8799) robbery H1498 riches H2428 increase H5107 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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--...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 6:17; Deuteronomy 6:10; Deuteronomy 8:12; Isaiah 28:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Vain — Feeding yourselves with vain hopes of felicity, from those riches which you take from others by violence....

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