Shīpiān 57:2

2 Wǒ yào qiúgào zhìgāo de shén , jiù shì wèi wǒ chéngquán zhū shì de shén .

Shīpiān 57:2 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 57:2

I will cry unto God most high
To remember him in his low estate, and who is higher than the highest, than Saul and his mighty men with him. This epithet David no doubt made use of, to encourage his faith in the Lord, who is above all, and can do all things; as follows;

unto God that performeth [all things] for me;
in a providential way, having made him, upheld him in being, fed and clothed him, preserved him, and followed him with his goodness all his days; and in a way of grace he performed all his purposes concerning him, all his promises unto him, and was performing and would perfect the work of grace in him; see ( Psalms 138:8 ) ( Philippians 1:6 ) . The Targum adds a fable by way of paraphrase on the text,

``who commanded, or prepared a spider, to perfect in the mouth of the cave a web for me;''

so it is in the king's Bible; as if, when he was in the cave, God so ordered it in his providence, that a spider should spin a web over the month of it, which prevented his persecutors from searching for him in it; but the Scripture is silent in this matter. Such a story is reported of Felix, bishop of Nola, in ecclesiastical history F13.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 Vid. Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 23. col. 611.

Shīpiān 57:2 In-Context

1 ( Dàwèi taóbì Sǎoluó , cáng zaì dòng lǐ . nàshí tā zuò zhè jīn shī , jiāo yǔ líng zhǎng , diàoyòng xiū yào huǐhuaì ) shén a , qiú nǐ liánmǐn wǒ , liánmǐn wǒ . yīnwei wǒde xīn tóukào nǐ . wǒ yào tóukào zaì nǐ chìbǎng de yīn xià , dĕng dào zāi haì guo qù .
2 Wǒ yào qiúgào zhìgāo de shén , jiù shì wèi wǒ chéngquán zhū shì de shén .
3 Nà yào tūn wǒde rén rǔmà wǒde shíhou , shén cóng tiān shang bì shī ēn jiù wǒ . yĕ bì xiàng wǒ fāchū cíaì hé chéngshí .
4 Wǒde xìngméng zaì shīzi zhōngjiān . wǒ tǎng wò zaì xìng rú lièhuǒ de shìrén dāngzhōng . tāmende yá chǐ shì qiāng , jiàn . tāmende shétou shì kuaì dāo .
5 Shén a , yuàn nǐ chóng gāo , guòyú zhū tiān . yuàn nǐde róngyào , gāo guo quán dì .
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