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Salmos 62

ARC · Chapter 62/150

1A minha alma espera sómente em Deus: d'elle vem a minha salvação.

2Só elle é a minha rocha e a minha salvação; é a minha defeza; não serei grandemente abalado.

3Até quando maquinareis o mal contra um homem? sereis mortos todos vós, sereis como uma parede encurvada e um vallado bambaleante.

4Elles sómente consultam como o hão de derribar da sua excellencia: deleitam-se em mentiras; com a bocca bemdizem, mas nas suas entranhas maldizem (Selah).

5Ó minha alma, espera sómente em Deus, porque d'elle vem a minha esperança.

6Só elle é a minha rocha e a minha salvação; é a minha defeza; não serei abalado.

7Em Deus está a minha salvação e a minha gloria: a rocha da minha fortaleza, e o meu refugio estão em Deus.

8Confiae n'elle, ó povo, em todos os tempos; derramae perante elle o vosso coração; Deus é o nosso refugio (Selah).

9Certamente que os homens de classe baixa são vaidade, e os homens d'ordem elevada são mentira; pesados em balanças, elles juntos são mais leves do que a vaidade.

10Não confieis na oppressão, nem vos ensoberbeçaes na rapina; se as vossas riquezas augmentam, não ponhaes n'ellas o coração.

11Deus fallou uma vez; duas vezes tenho ouvido isto: que o poder pertence a Deus.

12A ti tambem, Senhor, pertence a misericordia; pois retribuirás a cada um segundo a sua obra.

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Summary

David repeatedly declares that his soul waits only on God, who is his rock and salvation, warns that riches and oppression are vain, and concludes that power and mercy belong to the Lord alone.

Explanation

This psalm is structured around the Hebrew word 'ak' (only/surely), repeated several times to emphasize exclusive trust in God rather than in alternative sources of security such as wealth or the oppression of others. The verse 'set not your heart upon them' (v.10), referring to increasing riches, is a timely warning about how material prosperity can quietly become someone's true object of trust, displacing God from that central place. Today's application: continually examining where our real trust is placed — in God or in substitutes like money, status, or power.

Fun facts

  • The repetition of the Hebrew word 'ak' (translated as 'only' or 'surely') six times throughout the psalm is a deliberate rhetorical device to reinforce the idea of exclusive trust in God, something noticeable even in translation.
  • The title mentions 'Jeduthun,' one of the three chief Levite musicians appointed by David (along with Asaph and Heman) to lead musical worship at the temple (1 Chronicles 25:1), showing the professional organization of Israel's sacred music.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Salmos 62:1"Truly" is the key word of this psalm, repeated several times: trust in God shares no room with any other source of security, neither wealth nor human power, themes that return later in the poem.
  2. Salmos 62:2"Rock," "salvation," and "defence" form a trio of images of solidity, repeated almost identically in verse 6. Here the psalmist still admits "I shall not be greatly moved" — real security, but with a small reserve in the word "greatly."
  3. Salmos 62:3Comparing the enemies to "a bowing wall" and "a tottering fence" is saying that, however threatening they look now, they are already about to collapse — all that's missing is the final push to bring them down for good.
  4. Salmos 62:4It describes hypocrisy: praising to your face while wishing you harm inside, an image that appears in several psalms for false friends or flatterers.
  5. Salmos 62:5It repeats almost the same line from verse 1, but now as an order directed at his own soul: the psalmist talks himself into it, a common device in Hebrew poetry when confidence needs to be reasserted by force.
  6. Salmos 62:6It almost repeats verse 2, but without the word "greatly": the confidence that before admitted a small shaking now becomes absolute — "I shall not be moved," with no reservation.
  7. Salmos 62:7It stacks up several images of protection already used earlier in the psalm — rock, stronghold, refuge — into a single line, as if the author were gathering everything already said into one final summary of trust.
  8. Salmos 62:8"Pour out your heart" is a Hebrew image of sincere, unreserved prayer, like emptying a liquid to the last drop. The verse shifts in tone, from personal reflection to an invitation to the whole people, closed with the enigmatic Selah.
  9. Salmos 62:9It uses the commercial image of a scale for weighing goods: even putting all the powerful together on one side, they would weigh less than nothing — an exaggerated way of saying that human power carries no real weight before God.
  10. Salmos 62:10"Robbery" is quite literal: wealth taken by force or extortion. The verse warns that even honest gains, if they grow too large, should not become the heart's new object of trust — the real target of the whole psalm.
  11. Salmos 62:11"Once... twice" is a numeric pattern common in Hebrew poetry, also used in Proverbs, meaning "this was said and it stuck" — not a literal count of how many times God spoke.
  12. Salmos 62:12After stating in the previous verse that power belongs to God, this verse adds mercy as its counterpart: strength without kindness would be mere tyranny, and the psalm joins the two to describe God's character in full.

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