Psalm 55:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, Selah Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Lo, then would I wander far off, And remain in the wilderness. Selah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yes, I would wander far away, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! American Standard Version (1901) Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. [Selah Common English Bible I’d run so far away! I’d live in the desert. Selah Catholic Public Domain Version They will dwell and hide themselves. They will watch my heel, just as they waited for my soul; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul, |
Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee; or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom; go in haste, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.”
Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people.
O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
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 to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”