Psalm 62:10

Translations

Modern

Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Traditional

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Literal

You should not trust in oppression, and do not be vain in robbery; on wealth when it increases you should not set the heart.

Latin

Nolite sperare in iniquitate, et rapinas nolite concupiscere; divitiæ si affluant, nolite cor apponere.

Original

Hebrew

English

Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Notes

Psalms 62:10

Extortion involves using threats to force someone to give up their belongings. Stealing means taking what belongs to someone else.

Psalms 62:9–12

Humans are temporary, unlike God. Even when successful, their prosperity does not last long.

Psalms 62:1–12

This psalm expresses trust in the king and includes a prayer for him. The king relies on God even during tough times.

His tricky and strong enemies challenge him, but he stays strong. He urges himself and his people to trust God.

He wants them to view their human enemies from God's perspective, where they seem weak, temporary, and deceitful (Psalm 62:9).

Psalms 61:1–63:11

In these royal prayers, the psalmist longs for God’s presence. All three psalms concern themselves with the king’s security.

Psalms 51:1–65:13

These psalms of David share a common theme. They reflect on the experience of evil. In Psalm 51, the psalmist admits his wrongdoing and asks for God's forgiveness. Psalms 52–64 express sorrow over specific evils David faced. A song of praise (Psalm 65) brings David's laments to an end.

Theme notes and profiles

David The Heart in the Psalms Trusting God in the Psalms Wisdom Psalms

Related verses

1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
Psalm 52:7
“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Jeremiah 17:11
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
Isaiah 61:8
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Job 31:24–25
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
Deuteronomy 6:10–12
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
Job 27:16–23
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
Psalm 49:6
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Deuteronomy 8:12–14
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
Luke 12:15–21
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Glossary

David Jeduthun Music Psalms, Book of

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Psalm 62:10

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