Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
David encourages himself and others to stake everything on God alone, turning from the evanescent things of the world that pull us away from Him. We are prone to trust what our senses show us, yet these perish; the psalm teaches us the folly of divided dependence and calls us to rest in God entirely.
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Commenting on Psalm 62:1-12
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery. Wealth ill gotten is the trust only of fools, for the deadly pest lies in it; it is full of canker, it reeks with God's curse. To tread down the poor and silence their cries for justice, is the delight of many a braggart bully, who in his arrogance imagines that he may defy both...
Here we have David's exhortation to others to trust in God and wait upon him, as he had done. Those that have found the comfort of the ways of God themselves will invite others into those ways; there is enough in God for all the saints to draw from, and we shall have never the less for others sharing with us. I.
Commenting on Psalm 62:8-12