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Psalms 62:6

He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

KJV

Sicut adipe et pinguedine repleatur anima mea, et labiis exsultationis laudabit os meum.

Vulgate

ὡσεὶ στέατος καὶ πιότητος ἐμπλησθείη ἡ ψυχή μου, καὶ χείλη ἀγαλλιάσεως αἰνέσει τὸ ὄνομά σου.

LXX

He only is my rock and my salvation: He ismy high tower; I shall not be moved.

ASV

אַ֣ךְ לֵ֭/אלֹהִים דּ֣וֹמִּי נַפְשִׁ֑/י כִּי מִ֝מֶּ֗/נּוּ תִּקְוָתִֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַךְ
'k
adverb · 158×
י
y
noun · 752×
יִדָּ֑מּוּ
ydmv
verb · 29×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
תִּקְוָ֑ה
tqvh
noun · 34×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. Paul mixes the lowly things with the lofty, ever imitating his Master, so that the lowly become the path to the lofty, and through the former we are led to the latter, and when we are amid the great things we learn that these [lowly ones] were a condescension. This accordingly he does here also. After declaring that He offered up Himself, and showing Him to be a High Priest,…

Cross-references

  • 2Pet 1:10 — Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
  • Acts 2:25 — For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
  • Hos 1:7 — But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
  • Isa 45:17 — But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
  • Job 13:16 — He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
  • Nah 1:7 — The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
  • Prov 10:30 — The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
  • Prov 12:7 — The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
  • Ps 13:4 — Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
  • Ps 16:8 — I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  • Ps 16:8 — I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  • Ps 18:31 — For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
  • Ps 26:1 — Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
  • Ps 27:1 — The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
  • Ps 38:22 — Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
  • Ps 46:5 — God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
  • Ps 55:22 — Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
  • Ps 61:2 — From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
  • Ps 62:2 — He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
  • Ps 62:2 — He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
  • Ps 66:9 — Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
  • Ps 89:26 — He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
  • Ps 92:15 — To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
  • Ps 94:22 — But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
  • Ps 112:6 — Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
  • Ps 112:6 — Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
  • Ps 125:1 — They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
  • Ps 142:5 — I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.