What Does Psalm 57:2 Mean?
I call out to God Most High, to God who completes all things for me.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.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.
“completes all things for me” in this verse is gōmēr. 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.
“I call out to” in this verse is ʾeqrāʾ. 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 finishes what concerns me; your faithful love, O LORD, endures for the ages; do not let the works of your hands drop.Being confident of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Jesus the Anointed One.Fixing our sight on Jesus, the one who goes first and brings our trust to its goal, who for the joy lying before him remained under the cross, looking down on the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.THE THREAD
The LORD finishes what concerns me; your faithful love, O LORD, endures for the ages; do not let the works of your hands drop.“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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