Psalm 62:1
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God,.... In the use of means, for answers of prayer, for performance of promises, and for deliverance from enemies, and out of every trouble: or "is silent" {e}, as the Targum; not as to prayer, but as to murmuring; patiently and quietly waiting for salvation until the Lord's time come to give it; being "subject" to him, as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions; resigned to his will, and patient under his afflicting hand: it denotes a quiet, patient, waiting on the Lord, and not merely bodily exercise in outward ordinances; but an inward frame of spirit, a soul waiting on the Lord, and that in truth and reality, in opposition to mere form and show; and with constancy "waiteth", and "only" {f} on him, as the same particle is rendered in Psalms 62:2; and so Aben Ezra here;
from him cometh my salvation; both temporal, spiritual, and eternal, and not from any creature; the consideration of which makes the mind quiet and easy under afflictive provide uses: the contrivance of everlasting salvation is from the Father, the impetration of it from the Son, and the application of it from the Spirit.
{e} hymwd "silet", Pagninus, Munster, Cocceius; "silens", Montanus, Tigurine version; so the Targum.
{f} Ka "tantum", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus; "tantummodo", Junius & Tremellius, Schmidt.