Psalms 57:2
For you⌃ work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
In Context
1If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, then do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men. 1
3Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies. 1
Cross References
Psalms 41:5Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance. 1
Psalms 136:2We hung our + 136:2 Gr. organs, or, instruments. harps on the willows in the midst of it. 1
Psalms 143:9O God, I will sing a new song to you: I will play to you on a lute of ten strings. 1
Isaiah 26:20Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 57:2-7
Prayer in Affliction. 1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. 2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. 3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose… Read the whole commentary →