Psalms 55:6

American Standard Version (1901)

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 12:14 : 14 And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
  • Ps 11:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David]. In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain;
  • Ps 139:9 : 9 If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 55:7-8
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    7Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. {{Selah

    8I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.

  • Isa 38:14-15
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    14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

    15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

    5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.

  • 1[For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave]. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; For my soul taketh refuge in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge, Until [these] calamities be overpast.

  • 1[For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David]. In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain;

  • 9If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

  • Ps 102:6-7
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    6I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

    7I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

  • 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • 7For thou hast been my help, And in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

  • Job 6:8-9
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    8Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

    9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

  • Ps 120:5-6
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    5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

    6My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.

  • 7Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

  • 13When ye lie among the sheepfolds, [It is as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.

  • 4I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever: I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings. {{Selah

  • 8Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

  • 13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 9:26-27
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    26They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.

    27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;

  • 3Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • 13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

  • 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • 26Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, (And) stretcheth her wings toward the south?

  • 23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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    6I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

  • 13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;

  • 8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

  • 10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.

  • 28O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

  • 2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

  • 52They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

  • 18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

  • 22Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it] ; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.

  • 7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

  • 15Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

  • 7How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

  • 28I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

  • 4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

  • 13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

  • 16I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

  • 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.