the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 57:2
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I will call to God Most High,To God who accomplishes all things for me.
I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.
I wyll call vnto the most high Lorde: euen vnto the Lord that wil perfourme the cause which I haue in hande.
I will call unto God, the Most High; unto God that performeth [all] for me.
I will cry out to God Most High, To God who performs all things for me.
I will cry to God Most High, to God who works for me.
I pray to God Most High for help, and he takes care of me completely!
I cry out to God Most High, To God who accomplishes my requests for me.
I will crie vnto God most high: vnto God that perfourmeth all things for mee.
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
I call vnto God ye most hyest, eue ye God yt shal helpe me vp agayne.
I will cry to God Most High, Who accomplishes all things on my behalf [for He completes my purpose in His plan].
I will cry unto God Most High, Unto God that performeth all things for me.
I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me.
I will cry to God Most High, To God that performs [all things] for me.
I will cry to God most high; to God that performeth [all things] for me.
I cry out for help to the sovereign God, to the God who vindicates me.
I pray to you, my protector.
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.
I will call vnto the most high God, euen to the God, that performeth his promes toward me.
I will cry to God most High, to God my Saviour.
I cry out to El `Elyon, To God who accomplishes my requests for me.
Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me, for in Thee hath my soul taken refuge;
I will cry to God Most High, to God Who finishes all things for me.
I will cry to God most high; the God who has benefited me. Pause.
I will cry unto God Most High; unto God that performeth all things for me.
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.
I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
I will cry unto God Most High, Unto GOD, who accomplisheth on my behalf:
(56-3) I will cry to God the most high; to God who hath done good to me.
I will call to God Most High, to God who accomplishes things concerning me.
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.
I cry out to God Most High, to the God who does everything for me.
I call to God, the Most High, to God, who supplies my every need.
I call to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.
I schal crye to God altherhiyeste; to God that dide wel to me.
I call to God Most High, To God [who] is perfecting for me.
I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfils his purpose for me.
Contextual Overview
For the choir director: A psalm of David, regarding the time he fled from Saul and went into the cave. To be sung to the tune "Do Not Destroy!"
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy! I look to you for protection. I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until the danger passes by. 2 I cry out to God Most High, to God who will fulfill his purpose for me. 3 He will send help from heaven to rescue me, disgracing those who hound me. Interlude My God will send forth his unfailing love and faithfulness. 4 I am surrounded by fierce lions who greedily devour human prey— whose teeth pierce like spears and arrows, and whose tongues cut like swords. 5 Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens! May your glory shine over all the earth. 6 My enemies have set a trap for me. I am weary from distress. They have dug a deep pit in my path, but they themselves have fallen into it. InterludeBible 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.
