New King James Version
Psalms 55:8
8I would hasten my escape From the windy storm and tempest.”
Psalms 55:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
- New International Version (NIV)I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest."
- New Living Translation (NLT)How quickly I would escape— far from this wild storm of hatred.
Context of Psalms 55:8
6So I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. 7Indeed, I would wander far off, And remain in the wilderness. Selah I would hasten my escape From the windy storm and tempest.” 9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10Day and night they go around it on its walls; Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it.
Read all of Psalms 55Psalms 55:8 word by word
אָחִ֣ישָׁה מִפְלָ֣ט לִ֑י מֵר֖וּחַ סֹעָ֣ה מִסָּֽעַר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 55:8
- Psalms 18:4The pangs of death surrounded me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Isaiah 17:12Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas, And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
- Matthew 7:25and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Commentaries on Psalms 55:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8The windy storm - From the sweeping wind and tempest - Absalom and his party and the mutinous people in general.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8I would hasten my escape - I would make haste to secure an escape. I would not delay, but I would flee at once. From the windy storm and tempest - From the calamities which have come upon me, and which beat upon me like a violent tempest. If this psalm was composed on occasion of the rebellion of Absalom, it is easy to see with what propriety tiffs language is used. The troubles connected with that unnatural rebellion had burst upon him with the fury of a…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. 7-87-8. Even a wilderness is a safer place than exposure to such evils, terrible as storm and tempest.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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