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` In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my
refuge, is in God. Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart
before Him: God is a refuge for us'.
Six times over in this Psalm does the particle ak occur -
translated `truly' in verse 1, `surely' in verse 9, and `only' in
verses 2,4,5, and 6. We have already learned that `God is our
Refuge', and we now learn that He only is our Refuge.
Using Young's literal translation, we find the following
occurrences of the word in Psalm 62 :
Verse 1 . . . ONLY. - Toward God is my soul silent, From
Him is my salvation.
Verse 2 . . . ONLY. - He is my rock and my salvation, My
tower, I am not much moved.
Verse 5 . . . ONLY. - For God, be silent, O my soul, For from
Him is my hope.
Verse 6 . . . ONLY. - He is my rock and my salvation, My
tower, I am not moved.
In contrast to the Rock and the High Tower provided by God,
man is likened, in verse 3, to a `bowing wall and a tottering
fence'. And in verse 9 we read :
` ONLY. - Vanity are the low, a lie the high'.
This is followed, in verse 10, by the words :
` Trust not in oppression ... set not your heart upon wealth when it
increaseth'.
We find, too, a progression in confidence as the Psalm
proceeds, for in verse 2 we read :