Psalms 55:9
Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
In Context
8And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?
10I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.
Cross References
Genesis 11:7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.
2 Samuel 17:1And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.
Jeremiah 23:14And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the peophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hand of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings: that are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gamorrha.
John 7:45The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?
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 →