“They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.”
The reference to enemies deliberately taking the psalmist's honor and delighting in falsehood characterizes the opposition as malicious and deceptive, not merely competitive but actively hostile. The attempt to take honor suggests a desire not merely to harm but to humiliate and degrade. The blessing with the mouth while cursing in the heart indicates hypocrisy and the weaponization of speech. This verse articulates the psychological cruelty of the opposition and justifies the need for reliance on God rather than on human justice.
Church Fathers on Psalms 62:4
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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