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…

I will cry unto God most high - The idea is - God is exalted above all creatures; all events are “under” him, and he can control them. The appeal was not to man, however exalted; not to an angel,…

The title of this psalm has one word new in it, Al-taschith - Destroy not. Some make it to be only some known tune to which this psalm was set; others apply it to the occasion and matter of the psalm.…

I will cry&c. I will call unto God Most High. Cp. Psa 55:16; Psa 56:9. The combination Elôhîm Elyonoccurs only here and in Psa 78:56; it is the Elohistic equivalent of Jehovah Elyon(Psa 7:17; cp. Psa…