What Does Psalm 62:6 Mean in the King James?
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
You remain steady because deliverance itself is your ground.
THE MEANING
You are held by the one who is your rock and deliverance, a refuge set high beyond what can dislodge you. What shakes your surroundings does not shake the ground holding you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that you must keep yourself braced to stay safe dissolves here: your steadiness rests in the one who holds you.
THE ROOT
יְשׁוּעָה
yeshuah
GROWS FROM
ישע
yasha
To deliver; to bring out of constriction into spaciousness.
English “salvation” can sound like a final state; יְשׁוּעָה carries deliverance as movement out of constriction into spaciousness. Paired with rock, that movement is secure: the one who brings you out is also the ground beneath you.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: To deliver, bring out to safety.
יָשַׁע
The verb names the movement held in the noun “salvation.”
moshia: Deliverer.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
The verse’s security rests in the one who delivers, not only in deliverance as an outcome.
מִשְׂגָּב
misgav
GROWS FROM
שגב
sagav
To be high or inaccessible; to set on high.
The word translated “defence” is a high refuge, and its root also means to set someone on high. Safety here is spatial: the one who holds you places you beyond the reach of what would dislodge you.
ALSO GROWS
nisgav: Lofty, inaccessible.
נִשְׂגָּב
This branch shows the height and inaccessibility carried by the refuge in the verse.
asaggevehu: I will set him on high.
אֲשַׂגְּבֵהוּ
This verb form in Psalm 91:14 describes being raised into safety, echoing the protection of מִשְׂגָּב.
THE PATTERN
The life grounded in the one who is refuge remains standing when forces press against it.
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.THE THREAD
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.Psalm 18:2 uses יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah, deliverance), from ישע (yasha, to deliver), and sets it beside rock, fortress, and high tower. It opens this verse further: deliverance is grounded in the very one who is refuge.
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