Psalms 55:7
5 Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
6 I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
8 I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
9 O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
- KJV
- Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
- WEB
- Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.
- ASV
- Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah
- DARBY
- Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;
- BLB
- behold, I would go far off wandering [and] would lodge in the wilderness. Selah
- ÅB
- Se, jeg ville flykte langt bort, jeg ville ta herberge i ørkenen. Sela.
- OTB
- Se, jeg ville flykte langt bort,
Jeg ville tilbringe natten i ørkenen.
Sela - B1930
- Se, jeg vilde flykte langt bort, jeg vilde ta herberge i ørkenen. Sela.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 9:2
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
Read in context2 Samuel 15:14
And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
Read in contextJeremiah 37:12
Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people.
Read in contextProverbs 6:4–5
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Read in context2 Samuel 17:21–22
After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”
Read in context1 Samuel 27:1
David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
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