“Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.”
This opening affirmation that the soul waits silently for God establishes the stance of trust and patient expectation as the foundation for the entire psalm. The emphasis on silence suggests that the proper response to threat is not agitation but quiet confidence in God. The reference to God being salvation indicates that the fundamental hope is not for security through human effort but for deliverance through divine action. This verse establishes the paradox that characterizes the psalm: strength through silence, victory through waiting.
Church Fathers on Psalms 62:1
1. The title of it is, “Unto the end, in behalf of Idithun, a Psalm to David himself.” I recollect that already to you has been explained what Idithun is....Let us see how far he has leaped over, and whom he has “leaped over,” and in what place, though he has leaped over certain men, he is situate, whence as from a kind of spiritual and secure position he may behold what is below....He being set, I say, in a certain fortified place, does say, “Shall not my soul be subject to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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