Psalm 55:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, Selah

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Lo, then would I wander far off, And remain in the wilderness. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Yes, I would wander far away, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. [Selah

Common English Bible

⁷ I’d run so far away! I’d live in the desert. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ 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

⁷ They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

Psalm 55:7 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:14

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 37:12

Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people.

Jeremiah 9:1

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!

Jeremiah 9:2

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.

1 Samuel 27:1

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.”