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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.
Psalms 61:2 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV 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.
  • BSB 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.
  • NKJV From the end of the earth I will cry to You, When my heart is overwhelmed; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
  • NASB From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
  • NLT From the ends of the earth, I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of safety,

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Ps 18:2Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
  • Ps 139:9–10If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
  • Isa 32:2A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
  • Ps 62:6He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
  • Deut 4:29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • Ps 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress — I will never be greatly shaken.
  • Ps 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Ps 18:46Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
  • Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
  • Ps 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
  • Jonah 2:2–4He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
  • Ps 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
  • Isa 54:11“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
  • Ps 143:4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
  • Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
  • Ps 42:6My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
  • Ps 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
  • Luke 22:44Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
  • Mark 14:33–34He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

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Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 61:2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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