I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.
Parallel translations
- WEB I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.
- KJV I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
- NKJV I will cry out to God Most High, To God who performs all things for me.
- NASB I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.
- NLT I cry out to God Most High, to God who will fulfill his purpose for me.
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Quick answer
David cries to God Most High, who fulfills his purposes for him. It rests on God's sovereignty and faithfulness.
Overview
David addresses God as 'Most High,' the sovereign over all, who accomplishes what concerns him. His confidence is that God will bring to completion his good purposes for David's life. This trust in God's sovereign care echoes the promise that God works all things for the good of his people (Romans 8:28).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 138:8The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.
- Phil 1:6being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
- Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Isa 26:12O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
- Phil 2:12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
- Ps 136:2–3Give thanks to the God of gods. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Ps 56:2My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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