Psalms 61:2

From the end of the earth Perhaps, from the end of the land. But Jerusalem, the dwelling-place of God, is for him the centre of the earth. He measures his distance from it not by miles but by the intensity of his yearning to be there, in the place where the visible pledges of God's Presence were to be found.

will I cry R.V., will I call.

is overwhelmed Or, fainteth (Psalms 142:3).

Lead me to the rockthat is higher than I Lead me up upon a rock that is too high for me to reach by my own unaided efforts. -Rock" denotes an asylum to be reached, not an obstacle to be surmounted (Psalms 27:5). God Himself is such a Rock of refuge (Psalms 62:2; Psalms 62:6-7). David's wanderings may have suggested the metaphor (1 Samuel 24:2; 1 Chronicles 11:15).