Psalms 55:7

Psalms chapter 55 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. [Selah

King James Version · 1611

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

American Standard Version · 1901

Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. [Selah

v.6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

v.7This passage

v.8I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jeremiah 9:2
Oh 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.
Jeremiah 37:12
then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.
2 Samuel 17:21
And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said unto David, Arise ye, and pass quickly over the water; for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
2 Samuel 15:14
And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel 27:1
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.