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Psalm 62:4-6
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 62:4-6
New Catholic Bible
4 How long will you assault someone,
and all of you beat him down,
as if he were a leaning wall
or a tottering fence?[a]
5 They devise plots to dislodge me
from my place on high[b]
and delight in spreading lies about me.
They bless with their lips,
but they curse in their hearts. Selah
6 In God alone be at rest,[c] O my soul;
it is from him that my hope comes.
Footnotes
- Psalm 62:4 Leaning wall . . . tottering fence: metaphor for the psalmist’s state of weakness—real (in God’s eyes) or imagined (by his enemies).
- Psalm 62:5 Place on high: either a throne in the case of David or a place of safety such as a fortress on a cliff in the case of another psalmist. Hearts: see note on Ps 4:8.
- Psalm 62:6 Be at rest: see Pss 27:13f; 42:6, 12; 43:5.
