Psalms 55:7
(55:8) Lo, I would flee far away, I would spend my night in the wilderness. Selah.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
In Context
8(55:9) I would prepare hastily a refuge for me from the sweeping wind [and] from storm.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:14And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for there will not [else] be any escape for us from Abshalom: make haste, to depart, lest he make haste and overtake us suddenly and overwhelm us with evil, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
Proverbs 6:4Grant not any sleep to thy eyes, nor slumber to thy eyelids.
Jeremiah 9:2(9:1) Oh that one would place me in the wilderness in a lodging-place of wayfaring men. that I might leave my people, and go from them! for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
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 →