“ God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that powerd belongeth unto God. ”
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this - This repetition, or this declaration that he had heard the thing repeated, is designed to give emphasis to what was said, or to call attention to i...
God hath spoken (i) once; twice have I heard this; that power [belongeth] unto God. (i) He has plainly born witness to his power, so that no one needs to doubt it.
LXII. Rest in God. The Psalmist, who is closely allied in thought and style to the author of Psalms 4, exhorts to complete trust in God. He expresses his trust in Psalms 62:1 f., his rest in Psa...
once; Twice. Compare Job 33:14 ; Job 40:5 . Put for many times. power . strength.
11 God hath spoken once. The Psalmist considered that the only effectual method of abstracting the minds of men from the vain delusions in which they are disposed to trust, was bringing them...
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. God hath spoken once - God has once addressed his people in giving the law on Mount Sinai. The Chaldee translates the w...
Trust not in oppression, &c.— Trust not in oppression and rapine; become not vain: If riches, &c. Psalms 62:11 . One thing God hath pronounced; there are two which I have heard; Psalm...
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. -Warning against trust in anyone or anything except G...
This is a Ps. of the strongest faith, in which the experience of hostility ( Psalms 62:3-4 ) and the contemplation of life ( Psalms 62:9-10 ) only provide the background against which a serene confid...
Once; twice. — The usual Hebrew mode of emphasising a numerical statement, and one growing naturally out of the structure of the verse, which loves a climax. (Comp. Proverbs 6:16-19 .) The union o...
Psalms 62:1-12 THERE are several points of affinity between this psalm and the thirty-ninth-such as the frequent use of the particle of asseveration or restriction ("surely" or "only"); the rare a...
Our only Rock and Refuge Psalms 62:1-12 This is the “Only” Psalm. It consists of three stanzas, each of which begins with that word and ends with Selah. It was probably composed during Absalo...
In this psalm the principle of the last is yet more emphatically expressed. It opens with the declaration: My soul waiteth only upon God, and then proceeds in three stanzas to set forth this fact. T...
What particular reference the Psalmist hath to God's speaking, is not said; but surely never did the Lord give a more decided evidence of his power, than in speaking in and by his Son in the redempti...
God hath spoken once ,.... One word of his is more to be confided in, and depended on, than all the men and things in the world. The meaning is not that God hath only spoke once; he has spoke often;...
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power [belongeth] unto God. Ver. 11. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this ] The Septuagint have it thus, Once spoke God, these two thin...
God hath spoken once; twice , &c. That is, God hath spoken it, and I have heard it once, yea, twice; that is, frequently, as Job 33:14 . He hath declared, and I have understood it, by the light...
An Exhortation to Trust in God. 8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a re...
Twice, i.e. frequently, as Job 33:14 , both immediately, as at Sinai, and by his holy prophets from time to time. That power belongeth unto God; that power is God's prerogative; and consequent...
3). He Warns Against Trusting In Man Of Any Level, Or In Brute Force, Or In Riches, And Calls On His Hearers To Recognise The Fact That Power And True Love Belong To God Who Deals With Men On The Ba...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician .” See introduction to Psalms 57 . “ To Jeduthun .” See introduction to Psalms 39 . “ A Psalm of David .” “There are no historical statements...
Psalms 62:1 . Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. Waiting upon God, if not true and sincere, is only a mockery; it is also an insult to the Lord; and, so far from bringi...
This psalm is inscribed to Jeduthun, leader of a choral band in the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:41 . Both this and Psalms 63 ., have been understood as composed in the wilderness, though some would refe...
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from Him cometh my salvation. A testimony and an exhortation I. A religious testimony. 1. Concerning self ( Psalms 62:1-2 ; Psalms 62:6-7 ). His confidence i...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm, like so many, is the cry of an afflicted one—a man of high position, whom his enemies seek to destroy, or, if that be not possible, to thrust down from his dignity ( Psa...
Trust in God in the Face of Great Danger. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, the special choirmaster being named who should take charge of this hymn for use in public worship, a psalm of David, a...
Isaiah 26:4 ; Job 33:14 ; Job 40:5 ; John 19:11 ; Matthew 28:18 ; Matthew 6:13 ; Psalms 68:3 ; Psalms 68:34 ; Revelation 19:1
Spoken — Frequently, both immediately as at Sinai, and by his holy prophets, from time to time. That — That power is God's prerogative; and consequently all creatures, either against or without him...