Exegesis of Psalm 62
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The most basic and fundamental element of the psalms is their: expression of continual total and exclusive trust in God. This element is most fully expressed in Psalm 62. This psalm, as well as Psalms 4, 16, 27 and 131, is a psalm of trust. Each expresses the same firm hope in God's ability to help his faithful ones become "more than conquerors." Several scholars argue that the psalms of trust originated from the genre of the lament. One of the reasons for this is that the structures are basically the same though details differ. Drijvers identifies four common elements: the call to Yahweh, the lament, the petition, and the motivation. At the same time the psalms of trust transcend the bitterness of the immediate experience to express complete confidence in God. They also speak of the Lord in the third person instead of to him in the second person. It is difficult to be precise concerning the original Sitz im Leben of Psalm 62. Its original setting appears to come from the private devotion of an individual to the Lord (cf. 2-8). The individual seems to be a man of authority, a king,, because of the way he addresses the enemy (vs. 5) and exhorts his people (vs. 9). It evidently was composed while the pressure was still intense (vs. 4: "How long will ye rush upon a man, will ye slay, all of you . . .?") It was set, then, in the devotional
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