Psalm LXII

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be

greatly moved.

3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?

Ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency:

They delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwai-dly. Selah.

5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be

moved,

7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: To be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

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

11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this;
That power belongeth unto God.

12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy:

For thou renderest to every man according to his work.

This Psalm has three parts, each beginning with “]NI, “truly;” The connectinn. verses 1, 4, 9. There was a “Roch” spoken of in Psalm lxi. 2, The God of Israel had long been known under that name, ever since Jacob, and Moses, and Hannah, had appropriated the Rock, with its many properties of shade, shelter, strength, solidity, dignity, to give a people accustomed to level deserts and sands an emblem of the Unchanging One to whom the helpless may resort. This Rock is prominent throughout this Psalm. At the commencement, the soul of the speaker is seen under it as his shelter — he reposes in its shade, and on its strength.

‘’Only upon God my soul reposeth!” (Horsley.) He is a The plan. roch, while enemies are as an “inclining wall and a fence that has had a shove” — on the verge of ruin. Thus he can

sing,

“TmJn in God
Mjl soul takes rest,’’ (Verses 1 and <”).)

1 88 PSALM LXII. — THE THREATENED LOOKING TO THE HOCK.

The plan. Foes aiicl bitter persecutors are around him, and this keeps

him very near the Refuge at all times. We have here the soul of the Righteous One — Christ and his members — resorting to Jehovah while iniquity surrounds them, and persecution tries them. We hear them calling on Him, and stirring up one another to do the like (ver. 8.), affixing the solemn, “Selah.” “Trust in him at all times, yepeojjle” (Qy, true Israel of God!)

“Our estimate of man (it has been said) depends on our estimate of God;” and here God is felt to be most gloriously great. The sons of-men (ver. 9) are a mere vapour; their greatness, even when it shall flush up to the splendour of Antichrist’s dominion, is a mere mirage. The sentence against it is on the way. Already you may hear God speaking; it is no fancy. Two things have been declared by our God, viz., that he will bring down the proud, and that he has mercy for his own. As out of Sinai, so out of the Rock, we hear a voice telling that Jehovah is Ood Almighty, and yet Tnerciful too.

“One tiling God has spoken,
Two things there are which I have heard — viz., That might is God’s;

And that mercy also is Jehovah’s /” (Verses 11, 12.)

In this certainty we Icok for the Great Day of the Lord — the day when a mismanaged world shall be set in order — a day sure to come, and sure to satisfy us when it has come, “Fur thou renderest to every man according to his icork.”

Tiic title. When the choir of singers, at whose head was Jeduthun, sang this Psalm together, the godly in Israel would feel their souls raised to the very heights of confidence, sympathising with The Righteous One, when threatened, looking to the Rock for help.