Psalm 55:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:14

Then David said to all his officials who were with him at Jerusalem, “Get up! Let us flee, or there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Hurry, or he will soon overtake us, and bring disaster down upon us, and attack 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 share of property among the people there.

Jeremiah 9:1

O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so 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 traveler’s lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

1 Samuel 27:1

David said in his heart, “I shall certainly perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than to 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.”