Psalms 55:7
Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
In Context
6My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
8And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:14And David said to his servants, that were with him in Jerusalem: Arise and let us flee: for we shall not escape else from the face of Absalom: make haste to go out, lest he come and overtake us, and bring ruin upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
Proverbs 6:4Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
Jeremiah 9:2Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly 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 →