Psalms 55:7
They will dwell and hide themselves. They will watch my heel, just as they waited for my soul;
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
In Context
6All day long, they curse my words. All their intentions are for evil against me.
8because of this, nothing will save them. In your anger, you will crush the people.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:14And David said to his servants, who were with him in Jerusalem: “Rise up, let us flee! For otherwise there will be no escape for us from the face of Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest perhaps, upon arriving, he may seize us, and force ruin upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
Proverbs 6:4Do not grant sleep to your eyes, nor let your eyelids slumber.
Jeremiah 9:2Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.
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 →