Psalms 62:5

“My soul, wait thou only upon God, etc.] Be silent and subject to him, acquiesce in his providences, rest in him patiently and quietly, wait for his salvation; (see Gill on “<196201>Psalm 62:1”); perhaps some new temptation might arise, and David’s soul began to be uneasy and impatient; for frames are very changeable things; and therefore he encourages it to be still and quiet, and patiently wait on the Lord, and on him only: for my expectation [is] from him; or “my hope”, as the Targum; the grace of hope is from the Lord, and the thing hoped for is from him; he is the author and the object of it; and his word of promise encourages to the exercise of it; or “my patience”; as the Septuagint,…”

“(Compare Psa 62:1-2).”

“My soul, wait thou only upon God - See the notes at Psalms 62:1. There is, in the word used here, and rendered wait, the same idea of rest or repose which occurs in Psalms 62:1. The meaning is, that he would commit the whole cause to God, and that his soul would thus be calm and without apprehension. For my expectation is from him - In Psalms 62:1, this is salvation. The idea here is, that all that he expected or hoped for must come from God. He did not rely on his fellow men; he did not rely on himself. God alone could deliver him, and he confidently believed that God would do it. Often are we in such circumstances that we feel that our only “expectation” - our only hope - is in God. All…”

“62:5-8 The psalmist encourages himself and others to place their hope in God.”

“soul: Psa 42:5, Psa 42:11, Psa 43:5, Psa 103:1, Psa 103:2, Psa 104:1, Psa 104:35, Psa 146:1 wait: Psa 62:1, Psa 62:2, Psa 27:13, Psa 27:14, Psa 37:34; Lam 3:24-26; Mic 7:7; Hab 2:3; Zep 3:8; Joh 6:67-69 my: Psa 39:7, Psa 71:5; Jer 17:17; Phi 1:20 Psalms 62:6”

“The beginning of the second group goes back and seizes upon the beginning of the first. אך is affirmative both in Psa 62:6 and in Psa 62:7. The poet again takes up the emotional affirmations of Psa 62:2, Psa 62:3, and, firm and defiant in faith, opposes them to his masked enemies. Here what he says to his soul is very similar to what he said of his soul in Psa 62:2, inasmuch as he makes his own soul objective and exalts himself above her; and it is just in this that the secret of personality consists. He here admonishes her to that silence which in Psa 62:2 he has already acknowledged as her own; because all spiritual existence as being living remains itself unchanged only by means of a…”