KJV King James Version
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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Psalm 61:2
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 61
1 To the chief Musician upon Neginah, [A Psalm] of David. 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.
5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me] the heritage of those that fear thy name.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
מִקְצֵ֤הH7097 · qa.tsehendהָאָ֨רֶץ׀H776 · e.retsland: country/planetאֵלֶ֣יךָH413 · elto(wards)אֶ֭קְרָאH7121 · qa.rato call: call toבַּעֲטֹ֣ףH5848 · a.taphto turn asideלִבִּ֑יH3820 · levheartבְּצוּר־H6697 · tsurRocks (of Goats)יָר֖וּםH7311 · rumto exaltמִמֶּ֣נִּיH4480 · minfromתַנְחֵֽנִי׃H5148 · na.chahto lead
Cross-references
Psalm 18:2The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.Psalm 139:9-10[If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;Isaiah 32:2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.Psalm 62:6He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defence; I shall not be moved.Deuteronomy 4:29But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.Psalm 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.Psalm 62:2He only [is] my rock and my salvation; [he is] my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.Psalm 18:46The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.Psalm 27:5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.Psalm 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.Jonah 2:2-4And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.Psalm 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.Isaiah 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.Psalm 143:4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.Psalm 55:5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.Psalm 43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.Psalm 42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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