Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

62:8-10 To the Faithful: Evil Men Are but a Breath. From addressing his own soul in vv. 5-7, the singer turns to address the whole congregation (O people) with whom he is singing this hymn. He urges them all to trust in God and to find in him a refuge (v. 8), as he had described (v. 7). They express their trust by prayer (pour out your heart, v. 8, describes earnest prayer; cf. 1 Sam. 1:15; Ps. 42:4; Lam. 2:19) and by refusing to have any part in the methods of the attackers (put no trust in extortion, Ps. 62:10). Humans cannot outweigh God (they are together lighter than a breath, v. 9); so any human effort that does not arise from true faith will fail to achieve lasting good.