{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa062.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa062.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa062.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nwaiteth--literally, \"is silent,\" trusts submissively and confidently as a servant.\nThe titles applied to God often occur (Psa 9:9; Psa 18:2).\nbe greatly moved-- (Psa 10:6). No injury shall be permanent, though devised by enemies.\nTheir destruction will come; as a tottering wall they already are feeble and failing.\nbowing wall shall ye be--better supply \"are.\" Some propose to apply these phrases to describe the condition of \"a man\"--that is, the pious suffer: thus, \"Will ye slay him,\" &c.; but the other is a good sense.\nhis excellency--or, elevation to which God had raised him (Psa 4:2). This they try to do by lies and duplicity (Psa 5:9).\n(Compare Psa 62:1-2).\nnot be moved--not at all; his confidence has increased.\nrock of my strength--or strongest support (Psa 7:10; Psa 61:3).\npour out your heart--give full expression to feeling (Sa1 1:15; Job 30:16; Psa 42:4).\nye people--God's people.\nNo kind of men are reliable, compared with God (Isa 2:22; Jer 17:5).\naltogether--alike, one as the other (Psa 34:3).\nNot 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.\nonce; twice--(as in Job 33:14; Job 40:5), are used to give emphasis to the sentiment. God's power is tempered by His mercy, which it also sustains.\nfor thou renderest--literally, \"that Thou renderest,\" &c., connected with \"I heard this,\" as the phrase--\"that power,\" &c. [Psa 62:11] --teaching that by His power He can show both mercy and justice.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 62","type":"page"}