“Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.”
The reiteration that power and steadfast love belong to God emphasizes through repetition the fundamental truth that grounds all confidence and trust. The doubled affirmation suggests the absolute reliability and comprehensiveness of divine governance. The emphasis that God will render to each according to deeds reinforces the justice motif: there is ultimate accountability before God. This verse closes the psalm with the reassertion of the fundamental principle: trust in God is justified because God is both powerful and just.
Church Fathers on Psalms 62:12
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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