New English Translation
Psalms 55:5
5Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.
Psalms 55:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
- New International Version (NIV)Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, And horror has overwhelmed me.
Context of Psalms 55:5
3because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me. 4My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me. Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me. 6I say, “I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place! 7Look, I will escape to a distant place; I will stay in the wilderness. (Selah)
Read all of Psalms 55Psalms 55:5 word by word
יִרְאָ֣ה וָ֭רַעַד יָ֣בֹא בִ֑י וַ֝תְּכַסֵּ֗נִי פַּלָּצֽוּת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 55:5
- Psalms 119:120My body trembles because I fear you; I am afraid of your judgments. ע (Ayin)
- 2 Samuel 15:14So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come on! Let’s escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.”
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
- Job 23:15That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.
- Psalms 42:6I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
- Psalms 61:2From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit!
- Psalms 88:15I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.
- Luke 22:44And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
Commentaries on Psalms 55:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Fearfulness - How natural is this description! He is in distress; - he mourns; - makes a noise; - sobs and sighs; - his heart is wounded - he expects nothing but death; - this produces fear; - this produces tremor, which terminates in that deep apprehension of approaching and inevitable ruin that overwhelms him with horror. No man ever described a wounded heart like David.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Fearfulness and trembling - Fear so great as to produce trembling. Compare the notes at Job 4:14. He knew not when these things would end. How far the spirit of rebellion had spread he knew not, and he had no means of ascertaining. It seemed as if he would be wholly overthrown; as if his power was wholly at an end; as if even his life was in the greatest peril. And horror hath overwhelmed me - Margin, as in Hebrew, “covered me.” That is; it had come upon…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-8In the experience of deep anguish, the psalmist confesses that his adversity has become unbearable and he seeks an escape.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-54-5. express great alarm.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 55
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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