Psalms 62:5-12

5 sic benedicam te in vita mea in nomine tuo levabo manus meas

6 sicut adipe et pinguidine repleatur anima mea et labia exultationis laudabit os meum

7 si memor fui tui super stratum meum in matutinis meditabar in te

8 quia fuisti adiutor meus et in velamento alarum tuarum exultabo

9 adhesit anima mea post te me suscepit dextera tua

10 ipsi vero in vanum quaesierunt animam meam introibunt in inferiora terrae

11 tradentur in manus gladii partes vulpium erunt

12 rex vero laetabitur in Deo laudabitur omnis qui iurat in eo quia obstructum est os loquentium iniqua

Psalms 62:5-12 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, [A Psalm] of David. Concerning "Jeduthun," See Gill on "Ps 39:1," title. Kimchi thinks this psalm was written concerning the captivity; and Jarchi twtdh le, concerning the decrees and judgments made against Israel by their enemies; and so some of their ancient expositions {d}; but it seems to have been composed by David when in distress, either through Saul and his courtiers, or by reason of the conspiracy of Absalom. Theodoret takes it to be a prophecy of the persecution of Antiochus in the times of the Maccabees.

{d} Vid. Yalkut Simeoni in loc.