Psalms 55:7
Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
In Context
6And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,
8I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:14And David saith to all his servants who [are] with him in Jerusalem, 'Rise, and we flee, for we have no escape from the face of Absalom; haste to go, lest he hasten, and have overtaken us, and forced on us evil, and smitten the city by the mouth of the sword.'
Proverbs 6:4Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
Jeremiah 9:2Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them [are] adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
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 →