Psalms 61:2

From a place of distance and overwhelmed heart, David asks God to lead him to the rock higher than himself. It seeks refuge beyond his own strength.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 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.
• Ps 139:9–10If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
• Isa 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.
• Ps 62:6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
• Deut 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.
• Ps 62:2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
• Ps 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Ps 18:46The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
• Ps 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.
• Ps 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.
• Ps 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.
• 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.
• Isa 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.
• Ps 143:4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
• Ps 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.
• Ps 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.
• Ps 55:5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
• 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.
• Mark 14:33–34And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;

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