Psalm 55:7 “How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah”

Psalm 55:7

How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, I woulde take my flight farre off, and lodge in the wildernes. Selah.

Darby Translation

Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

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Cross references

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

Jeremiah 9:2 2 Samuel 15:14 Jeremiah 37:12 1 Samuel 27:1 2 Samuel 17:21 2 Samuel 17:22

Jeremiah 9:2 · BSB

If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

2 Samuel 15:14 · BSB

And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword…

Jeremiah 37:12 · BSB

Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people.

1 Samuel 27:1 · BSB

David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all ove…

2 Samuel 17:21 · BSB

After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”

2 Samuel 17:22 · BSB

So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed the Jordan.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

8I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

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