Psalms 55:4
(55:5) My heart is sorely pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
In Context
5(55:6) Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and shuddering hath covered me.
Cross References
Psalms 6:3(6:4) And my soul is greatly terrified; but thou, O Lord, how long yet—?
Psalms 42:10(42:11) It is as death in my bones, when my assailants reproach me; when they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Psalms 88:3(88:4) For my soul is sated with troubles; and my life draweth nigh unto the nether world.
Psalms 116:3The bands of death had compassed me, and the pangs of the nether world had overtaken me; I had met with distress and sorrow:
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 →