What does Psalms Chapter 62 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The Latin incipit is Deus Deus meus, ad te. The speaker’s petitions, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording. Edition interpretations remain separate from verse speech; no universal safety or clinical guarantee is established.

Chapter breakdown

The Latin incipit is Deus Deus meus, ad te. The heading describes aspiring after God; the inscription places David in Edom's desert. The speaker watches at daybreak, soul and flesh thirsting for God in many ways. In a pathless waterless land he says he has come before God in the sanctuary to see power and glory. The text does not supply Jerusalem, a royal manhunt, physical dehydration or lack of food.

Mercy is better than lives and his lips will praise. He will bless all life and lift hands in God's name, asks his soul filled as with marrow and fatness, and says his mouth shall praise joyfully. If he remembered God upon his bed, he will meditate in morning because God has been helper. He will rejoice under wings, says his soul stuck close and the right hand received him. Requested filling is not an already achieved banquet or a universal physical safety guarantee.

Those seeking his soul in vain shall go to lower earth, be delivered into sword's hands and be portions of foxes. The king shall rejoice in God, those swearing by him shall be praised, and wicked speakers' mouths are stopped. The future enemy outcome is not expanded into a witnessed disposal of unburied corpses.

The story inside

Opening: The Latin incipit is Deus Deus meus, ad te. Development: The speaker’s petitions, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording. Conclusion: Edition interpretations remain separate from verse speech; no universal safety or clinical guarantee is established.

Lessons worth keeping

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The Latin incipit is Deus Deus meus, ad te.
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The speaker’s petitions, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording.
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Edition interpretations remain separate from verse speech; no universal safety or clinical guarantee is established.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 61315–61319
62:2. O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! 62:3. In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.
Lines 61321–61324
62:4. For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise. 62:5. Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.
Lines 61332–61336
62:8. Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings: 62:9. My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me.