Psalms 61:2
While I am discouraged and far from my home, I am calling out to you. Lead me to the place that is like a high rock [MET] on top of which I will be safe.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
1God, listen to me, and answer my prayer [DOU]!
Cross References
Psalms 17:1Yahweh, listen to me while I plead with you to act justly toward me. Hear me while I call out to you to help me. Pay attention to what I say while I pray because I am speaking [MTY] honestly/truthfully.
Psalms 18:46Yahweh is alive! Praise the one who is like an overhanging rock [MET] under which I am safe Exalt the God who saves me!
Psalms 40:2When I had many troubles, it was as though I was in a deep pit. But he lifted me up out of the mud and slime of that pit; he set my feet on a solid rock, and enabled me to walk ◄safely/without falling►.
Psalms 43:5So ◄why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► [RHQ] I confidently expect God to bless me, and I will praise him again, my God, the one who saves me.
Psalms 62:2Only he is like an overhanging rock under which I can be safe [MET]; he will be like a shelter, with the result that I will never be defeated [MET].
Psalms 77:3When I think about God, I ◄despair/think that he will never help me►; when I meditate about him, I am discouraged. (Think about that!)
Matthew Henry on Psalms 61:2-5
Crying to God in Distress. 1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. 2 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. 3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. 4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah. In these verses we may observe, I. David's close adherence and application to God by prayer in the day of his distress and trouble: "Whatever comes, I will cry… Read the whole commentary →