Psalms Chapter 61 verse 2 Holy Bible
From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
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From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.
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From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my eart is overwhelmed: thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is too high for me.
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From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
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To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
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From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
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From the end of the land unto Thee I call, In the feebleness of my heart, Into a rock higher than I Thou dost lead me.
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Psalms 61 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee. Eastern hyperbole may call the Trans-Jordanic territory "the end of the earth," but certainly the expression would be more natural in the mouth of an exile in Assyria, Media, or Babylon. When my heart is overwhelmed; or, "when my heart fainteth" (comp. Psalm 107:5). Lead me to the rock that is higher than I; rather, that is too high for me - that I cannot reach unaided. Some regard the "rock" as Mount Zion; but others, more reasonably, explain it as "God himself" (see Psalm 62:2, 6, 7). "Let thy grace lead me to thee" (Kay).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) From the end. of the earth . . .--A hyperbolic expression for a great distance. Isaiah (Isaiah 5:26) uses the expression of Assyria, and it would be natural in an exile's mouth, but must not be pressed to maintain any theory of the psalm's date.When my heart is overwhelmed.--Literally, in the covering of my heart, the verb being used (Psalm 65:13) of the valleys covered with corn, and metaphorically, as here, of "the garment of heaviness," which wraps a sad heart (Psalms 102 title; Isaiah 57:16). (Comp. Tennyson's "muffled round with woe.")Lead me to the rock . . .--Literally, upon the rock lead me, which is probably a constructio praegnans for lead me to the rock too high for me to climb by myself, and place me there. The elevated rock is a symbol of security, which cannot be obtained without the Divine help. Others take the expression as figurative for a difficulty which it needs God's help to surmount.
