What Does Psalm 57:2 Mean in the King James?
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Your cry rises from what is unfinished toward the One who is bringing all that concerns you to completion.
THE MEANING
Your cry is directed to God Most High. The verse presents him as the one bringing every matter concerning you to completion, so unfinished parts of your life are still held within that work.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The unfinished parts of your life do not mean God has left you to carry their completion alone.
THE ROOT
גֹּמֵר
gōmēr
GROWS FROM
גמר
Complete; bring to an end.
English “performeth” can suggest carrying out tasks; גֹּמֵר (gōmēr, bringing to completion) names the work reaching its end. The phrase עָלָי (ʿālay, upon me or concerning me) gives that completion a personal scope: it reaches what rests upon or concerns the speaker.
ALSO GROWS
gāmar: Complete; come to an end.
גָּמַר
The root’s basic motion is reaching completion, not merely undertaking work.
yigmor: He will complete.
יִגְמֹר
This form appears in Psalm 138:8, where the same completion concerns the speaker.
אֶקְרָא
ʾeqrāʾ
GROWS FROM
קרא
Call, summon, proclaim, or name.
The Hebrew verb carries the sense of a directed call, while the same root can also describe naming or proclaiming. The cry here is more than a sound of distress: it is an address to God Most High.
ALSO GROWS
qārāʾ: Call, summon, proclaim, or name.
קָרָא
The verse’s cry belongs to the same act of calling that can summon or name its recipient.
miqrāʾ: Convocation or proclaimed reading.
מִקְרָא
The shared root can give a call a gathered or proclaimed form, showing that calling is an act directed outward.
THE PATTERN
The work that concerns a person is brought toward its completion by God.
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.THE THREAD
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.“Perfect” translates יִגְמֹר (yigmor, he will complete), from the same גמר (g-m-r, complete) root as “performeth” in this verse. Psalm 57 names God as the one completing what concerns the speaker; Psalm 138 makes that same completion explicit.
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