Psalms 56:3
I will cry to God the most High; to God who hath done good to me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Clamabo ad Deum altissimum, Deum qui benefecit mihi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κεκράξομαι πρὸς τὸν θεὸν τὸν ὕψιστον, τὸν θεὸν τὸν εὐεργετήσαντά με. διάψαλμα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 57:3
- אֶ֭קְרָא לֵֽאלֹהִ֣ים עֶלְי֑וֹן לָ֝אֵ֗ל גֹּמֵ֥ר עָלָֽי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LVII
6. “I will cry to God most high” ( ver. 2 ). If most high He is, how heareth He thee crying? Confidence hath been engendered by experience: “to God,” he saith, “who had done good to me.” If before that I was seeking Him, He did good to me, when I cry shall He not hearken to me? For good to us the Lord God hath done in sending to us our Saviour Jesus Christ, that He might die for our offences, and rise again for our justification. For what sort of men hath He willed His Son to die? For ungodly men. But ungodly men were not seeking God, and have been sought of God. For He is Most High in such sort, as that not far from Him is our misery and our groaning: because “near is the Lord to them that have bruised the heart.” “God that hath done good to me.”