Psalms 55:5
Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
In Context
4My heart is greatly pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
6And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Psalms 42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.
Isaiah 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
Luke 22:44And having become in agony he prayed more intensely, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 55:2-9
Supplications of David in Distress. 1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. 2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings… Read the whole commentary →