Psalms 62.
David, professing his confidence in God, discourageth his enemies. In the same confidence he encourageth the godly. No trust is to be put in worldly things. Power and mercy belong to God.
To the chief musician, to Jeduthun; A Psalm of David.
Title. ידותון על למנצח lamnatseach al ieduthun.] It is not said, upon what occasion this psalm was written. Bishop Patrick apprehends that David composed it when he had overcome all the fears into which the rebellion of Absalom at first threw him, though he was not yet fully restored to his kingdom. It is evidently a psalm of praise for some deliverance which the author attributes wholly to God, on whom alone therefore he advises all people to place their dependance.
Psalms 62:1. Truly my soul waiteth— Even to God is my soul silent; see Psalms 62:5.

Psalms 62:3. How along will ye imagine mischief? &c.— How long will ye push against a single man? Ye shall all of you be slain, and fall on a sudden, like a bending wall, or a tottering fence. See Green and Mudge. The word fence, or hedge, does not come up to the original; which means such a sort of partition, or wall, as, when it is decayed, is liable to fall and crush a man to death. In this view the similitude is, not that they should be in a ruinous condition, like a decayed wall, but that they should threaten destruction to all who came near them, as a falling wall does to all those who come within the reach of it; and, as the prophet expresses it, Like a breach ready to fall, swelling out into a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant. Isaiah 30:13.

Psalms 62:9. A lie— That is, deceitful; because unable to perform what they seem by their outward appearance to promise: or a lie may signify a mere nothing; for a lie has no reality.