Psalms 55:7
How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
In Context
6I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
8I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:14And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
Proverbs 6:4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Jeremiah 9:2If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
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 →