You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, in order that the people may hear when I speak with you and so trust you ever after.”

The People Consecrated

When Moses had told the words of the people to the Lord,

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me, to show my holiness before the eyes of the Israelites, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

But in spite of this, you have no trust in the Lord your God,

And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and occupy the land that I have given you,’ you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, neither trusting him nor obeying him.

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.

But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.

And all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was a trustworthy prophet of the Lord.

Achish trusted David, thinking, “He has made himself utterly abhorrent to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant.”

and when they received help against them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried to God in the battle, and he granted their entreaty because they trusted in him.

All these who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds were two hundred twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and the seer Samuel established them in their office of trust.

Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Their confidence is gossamer, a spider’s house their trust.

He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves, for emptiness will be their recompense.

They are torn from the tent in which they trusted and are brought to the king of terrors.

“If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence,

Psalm 3

Trust in God under Adversity

A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.

O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord.

Psalm 5

Trust in God for Deliverance from Enemies

To the leader: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.

Listen to my words, O Lord; attend to my sighing.

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Psalm 11

Song of Trust in God

To the leader. Of David.

In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains,

But I trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

Psalm 16

Song of Trust and Security in God

A Miktam of David.

Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.