Lesson 337: Psalms 62:5

Psalm 62 is a quiet trust psalm, likely composed when DavidDavid is Israel’s second king — a shepherd, warrior, poet, and the central human figure in the Messianic line. Scripture presents him as “a man after God’s own heart,” whose life reveals covenant loyalty, repentance, worship, and the promise of an everlasting throne. More faced political threats. Surrounded by attackers who seemed stable yet were fragile, DavidDavid is Israel’s second king — a shepherd, warrior, poet, and the central human figure in the Messianic line. Scripture presents him as “a man after God’s own heart,” whose life reveals covenant loyalty, repentance, worship, and the promise of an everlasting throne. More anchored his soul in God alone as rock, salvation, and source of hope rather than in human schemes.

DavidDavid is Israel’s second king — a shepherd, warrior, poet, and the central human figure in the Messianic line. Scripture presents him as “a man after God’s own heart,” whose life reveals covenant loyalty, repentance, worship, and the promise of an everlasting throne. More waits in silence for God alone, warning against trusting in extortion or riches. People of low and high position are fleeting. Twice he tells his soul to wait for God alone. Here he urges his soul to find rest in God because hope comes from him.