Psalms 55:7
Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.
World English 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! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
8“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:14David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee, or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
Proverbs 6:4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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 →