Psalms 55:5
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
In Context
4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 23:15Therefore am I troubled at his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him.
Psalms 42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore do I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Isaiah 21:4My heart panteth, horror hath affrighted me: the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
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 →