“He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.”
The affirmation that God is the psalmist's rock and fortress, and that one will not be shaken, repeats the earlier declaration, reinforcing it through repetition. The doubled affirmation creates a kind of hammer-blow effect: this truth must be heard and internalized despite all opposition. The emphasis on not being shaken establishes that internal stability derives from divine foundation, not from external circumstances. This verse closes the section of petition with a final reinforcement of the fundamental truth of the psalm.
Church Fathers on Psalms 62:6
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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