Psa 62:12 | NETfull | STEP | and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love. For you repay men for what they do. A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness.

Psalms 62:12

and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love. ^{▼▼ Heb “and to you, O Master, [is] loyal love.”}
For you repay men for what they do. ^{▼▼ Heb “for you pay back to a man according to his deed.” Another option is to understand vv. 11b and 12a as the first principle and v. 12b as the second. In this case one might translate, “God has declared one principle, two principles I have heard, namely, that God is strong, and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love, and that you repay men for what they do.”} ^{▼▼ You repay men for what they do. The psalmist views God’s justice as a demonstration of both his power (see v. 11c) and his loyal love (see v. 12a). When God judges evildoers, he demonstrates loyal love to his people.}

Psalm 63

^{▼▼ Psalm 63. The psalmist expresses his intense desire to be in God’s presence and confidently affirms that God will judge his enemies.}

A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness.

12 ^{▼▼ According to the psalm superscription David wrote the psalm while in the “wilderness of Judah.” Perhaps this refers to the period described in 1 Sam 23–24 or to the incident mentioned in 2 Sam 15:23.}