John Gill Commentary Psalms 62:1

"My soul waiteth in silence for God only: From him [cometh] my salvation." — Psalms 62:1 (ASV)

Truly my soul waits upon God
In the use of means, for answers of prayer, for performance of promises, and for deliverance from enemies, and out of every trouble: or "is silent" ^F5 , as the Targum; not as to prayer, but as to murmuring; patiently and quietly waiting for salvation until the Lord's time comes to give it; being "subject" to him, as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions; resigned to his will, and patient under his afflicting hand: it denotes a quiet, patient, waiting on the Lord, and not merely bodily exercise in outward ordinances; but an inward frame of spirit, a soul waiting on the Lord, and that in truth and reality, in opposition to mere form and show; and with constancy "waits", and "only" ^F6 on him, as the same particle is rendered in (Psalms 62:2Psalms 62:6) ; and so Aben Ezra here;

from him [comes] my salvation ;
both temporal, spiritual, and eternal, and not from any creature; the consideration of which makes the mind quiet and easy under afflictive providences: the contrivance of everlasting salvation is from the Father, the impetration of it from the Son, and the application of it from the Spirit.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F5: (hymwd) "silet", Pagninus, Munster, Cocceius; "silens", Montanus, Tigurine version; so the Targum.
• F6: (Ka) "tantum", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus; "tantummodo", Junius & Tremellius, Schmidt.