Psalms 55:8
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Psalms 55:8 in other translations
| BSB | I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.” |
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| WEB | “I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.” |
| ASV | I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest. |
| YLT | I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind. |
| DARBY | I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest. |
| BBE | I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind. |
| Webster | I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. |
What does Psalms 55:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 55:7-8
7-8. Even a wilderness is a safer place than exposure to such evils, terrible as storm and tempest.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 55:1-8
In these verses we have, 1. David praying. Prayer is a salve for every sore, and a relief to the spirit under every burden. 2. David weeping. Griefs are thus, in some measure, lessened, while those increase that have no vent given them. David in great alarm. We may well suppose him to be so, upon the breaking out of Absalom's conspiracy, and the falling away of the people. Horror overwhelmed him. Probably the…
Psalms 55:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 55:8
- Isaiah 4:6
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
- Matthew 7:25-27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Psalms 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
- Isaiah 17:12-13
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
18:4; Isa 17:12,13; Mt 7:25-27
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Context
- Psalms 55:7
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
- Psalms 55:8
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
- Psalms 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 55:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Apresuraríame á escapar del viento tempestuoso, de la tempestad. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Voici, je m’enfuirais loin, et je me logerais au désert. Sélah. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich wollte eilends entrinnen vor dem heftigen Winde, vor dem Sturme. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | pro nihilo salvos facies illos; in ira populos confringes. |