Psalms 55:5
(55:6) Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and shuddering hath covered me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
In Context
4(55:5) My heart is sorely pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 23:15Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him.
Psalms 42:6(42:7) O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and from the peaks of Chermon, from the low mount.
Psalms 88:15(88:16) I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted.
Isaiah 21:4My heart wandereth astray, dread affrighteth me: the evening of my pleasure hath he turned unto me into terror.
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 →