PREVIOUS CHAPTER - NEXT CHAPTER - HELP - GR VIDEOS - GR YOUTUBE - TWITTER - SD1 YOUTUBE PSALM 62 Ps 62:1-12. To Jeduthun--(See on Ps 39:1, title). The general tone of this Psalm is expressive of confidence in God. Occasion is taken to remind the wicked of their sin, their ruin, and their meanness. 1. waiteth--literally, "is silent," trusts submissively and confidently as a servant.
2. The titles applied to God often occur
(Ps 9:9; 18:2).
3. Their destruction will come; as a tottering wall they already
are feeble and failing.
4. his excellency--or, elevation to which God had raised him (Ps 4:2). This they try to do by lies and duplicity (Ps 5:9). 5, 6. (Compare Ps 62:1, 2). 6. not be moved--not at all; his confidence has increased. 7. rock of my strength--or strongest support (Ps 7:10; 61:3).
8. pour out your heart--give full expression to feeling
(1Sa 1:15;
Job 30:16;
Ps 42:4).
9. No kind of men are reliable, compared with God
(Isa 2:22;
Jer 17:5).
10. Not only are oppression and robbery, which are wicked means of wealth, no grounds of boasting; but even wealth, increasing lawfully, ought not to engross the heart. 11. once; twice--(as in Job 33:14; 40:5), are used to give emphasis to the sentiment. God's power is tempered by His mercy, which it also sustains. 12. for thou renderest--literally, "that Thou renderest," &c., connected with "I heard this," as the phrase--"that power," &c. [Ps 62:11] --teaching that by His power He can show both mercy and justice. GOTO NEXT CHAPTER - D. J-F-B INDEX & SEARCH
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