Psalms 57:2

Myles Coverdale Bible

I call vnto God ye most hyest, eue ye God yt shal helpe me vp agayne.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I call to God Most High,to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

Hebrew Names Version
I cry out to El `Elyon, To God who accomplishes my requests for me.

King James Version
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

English Standard Version
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

New Century Version
I cry out to God Most High, to the God who does everything for me.

New English Translation
I cry out for help to the sovereign God, to the God who vindicates me.

Amplified Bible
I will cry to God Most High, Who accomplishes all things on my behalf [for He completes my purpose in His plan].

New American Standard Bible
I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.

World English Bible
I cry out to God Most High, To God who accomplishes my requests for me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will call vnto the most high God, euen to the God, that performeth his promes toward me.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will call to God Most High,To God who accomplishes all things for me.

Berean Standard Bible
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.

Contemporary English Version
I pray to you, my protector.

Complete Jewish Bible
Show me favor, God, show me favor; for in you I have taken refuge. Yes, I will find refuge in the shadow of your wings until the storms have passed.

Darby Translation
I will call unto God, the Most High; unto God that performeth [all] for me.

Easy-to-Read Version
I pray to God Most High for help, and he takes care of me completely!

George Lamsa Translation
I will cry to God most High, to God my Saviour.

Good News Translation
I call to God, the Most High, to God, who supplies my every need.

Lexham English Bible
I will call to God Most High, to God who accomplishes things concerning me.

Literal Translation
I will cry to God Most High, to God who works for me.

American Standard Version
I will cry unto God Most High, Unto God that performeth all things for me.

Bible in Basic English
I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me, for in Thee hath my soul taken refuge;

King James Version (1611)
I will crie vnto God most high: vnto God that perfourmeth all things for mee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll call vnto the most high Lorde: euen vnto the Lord that wil perfourme the cause which I haue in hande.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will cry to God most high; the God who has benefited me. Pause.

English Revised Version
I will cry unto God Most High; unto God that performeth all things for me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I schal crye to God altherhiyeste; to God that dide wel to me.

Update Bible Version
I will cry to God Most High, To God that performs [all things] for me.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will cry to God most high; to God that performeth [all things] for me.

New King James Version
I will cry out to God Most High, To God who performs all things for me.

New Living Translation
I cry out to God Most High, to God who will fulfill his purpose for me.

New Life Bible
I will cry to God Most High, to God Who finishes all things for me.

New Revised Standard
I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will cry unto God Most High, Unto GOD, who accomplisheth on my behalf:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(56-3) I will cry to God the most high; to God who hath done good to me.

Revised Standard Version
I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfils his purpose for me.

Young's Literal Translation
I call to God Most High, To God [who] is perfecting for me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.

Contextual Overview

¹ Be mercifull vnto me (o God) be mercifull vnto me, for my soule trusteth in ye: & vnder the shadowe of thy wynges shalbe my refuge, vntill wickednesse be ouerpast. ² I call vnto God ye most hyest, eue ye God yt shal helpe me vp agayne. ³ He shal sende fro heauen, & saue me fro the reprofe of him that wolde swalowe me vp. ⁴ Sela. This shal God sende, for his mercy and faithfulnesse sake. I lye with my soule amonge the cruell lyons: ⁵ euen amonge the children of men, whose tethe are speares and arowes, and their tonge a sharpe swerde. ⁶ Set vp thy self (o God) aboue the heaues, and thy glory aboue all the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God most: Psalms 56:2, Psalms 136:2, Psalms 136:3, Isaiah 57:15

that: Psalms 138:8, Isaiah 26:12, Philippians 1:6, Philippians 2:12, Hebrews 13:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:18 - the most Acts 16:17 - the most Hebrews 7:1 - the most

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will cry unto God most high,.... To remember him in his low estate, and who is higher than the highest, than Saul and his mighty men with him. This epithet David no doubt made use of, to encourage his faith in the Lord, who is above all, and can do all things; as follows;

unto God that performeth [all things] for me; in a providential way, having made him, upheld him in being, fed and clothed him, preserved him, and followed him with his goodness all his days; and in a way of grace he performed all his purposes concerning him, all his promises unto him, and was performing and would perfect the work of grace in him; see Psalms 138:8. The Targum adds a fable by way of paraphrase on the text,

"who commanded, or prepared a spider, to perfect in the mouth of the cave a web for me;''

so it is in the king's Bible; as if, when he was in the cave, God so ordered it in his providence, that a spider should spin a web over the month of it, which prevented his persecutors from searching for him in it; but the Scripture is silent in this matter. Such a story is reported of Felix, bishop of Nola, in ecclesiastical history m.

m Vid. Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 23. col. 611.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will cry unto God most high - The idea is - God is exalted above all creatures; all events are “under” him, and he can control them. The appeal was not to man, however exalted; not to an angel, however far he may be above man; it was an appeal made at once to the Supreme Being, the God to whom all worlds and all creatures are subject, and under whose protection, therefore, he must be safe.

Unto God that performeth all things for me - The word used here, and rendered “performeth” - גמר gâmar - means properly to bring to an end; to complete; to perfect. The idea here is, that it is the character of God, that he “completes” or “perfects,” or brings to a happy issue all his plans. The psalmist had had experience of that in the past. God had done this in former trials; he felt assured that God would do it in this; and he, therefore, came to God with a confident belief that all would be safe in his hands.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 57:2. I will cry unto God most high — He is the Most High; and therefore far above all my enemies, though the prince of the power of the air be at their head.

Unto God, לאל lael, unto the strong God, one against whom no human or diabolic might can prevail. David felt his own weakness, and he knew the strength of his adversaries; and therefore he views God under those attributes and characters which were suited to his state. This is a great secret in the Christian life; few pray to God wisely; though they may do it fervently.

That performeth all things for me. — Who works for me; גמר gomer, he who completes for me, and will bring all to a happy issue.