Psalms 55:8

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See, I would flee far away; I would stay in the wilderness forever. Selah.

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  • Isa 4:6 : 6 It will be a shelter to provide shade in the daytime from the heat, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.
  • Isa 17:12-13 : 12 Woe to the multitude of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rushing of nations that is like the rushing of mighty waters. 13 The nations roar like the crashing of mighty waters, but He rebukes them, and they flee far away. They are driven like chaff on the mountains before the wind, like tumbleweed before a storm.
  • Matt 7:25-27 : 25 The rain came down, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain came down, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and struck against that house, and it collapsed with a great crash.
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 I called upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies.

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  • Ps 55:3-7
    5 verses
    82%

    3 Pay attention to me and answer me. My thoughts are restless, and I am distraught.

    4 From the voice of the enemy, and from the oppression of the wicked—for they bring down trouble on me and in their anger they hate me.

    5 My heart trembles within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

    6 Fear and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

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

  • 15 As fire burns a forest, and as flames set the mountains ablaze,

  • Job 30:14-15
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    14 They come in as through a wide breach; chaos rolls in like a wave under the crash of destruction.

    15 Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue my dignity like the wind, and my salvation has vanished like a cloud.

  • 9 I would hurry to a place of refuge, away from the stormy wind and tempest.

  • Job 27:21-22
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    21 The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

    22 It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power.

  • 8 fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy winds obeying His word,

  • 22 You lift me up and make me ride on the wind; You dissolve me in the storm.

  • 1 For the director of music. Of David: I have taken refuge in the LORD. How can you say to me, "Flee like a bird to your mountain"?

  • 22 Blessed be the LORD, for he has shown his wondrous love to me in a fortified city.

  • 9 Rescue me from my enemies, Lord, for I seek refuge in you.

  • 1 For the director of music, a psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

  • 27 When your terror comes like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

  • 6 It will be a shelter to provide shade in the daytime from the heat, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.

  • 8 But I would seek God and place my cause before the Almighty.

  • 1 This is a prophecy about the wilderness by the sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, it comes from the desert, from a dreadful land.

  • 1 To the chief musician: Do not destroy. A miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave.

  • 7 At Your rebuke they fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

  • 1 Why, Lord, do You stand far off? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

  • 13 For troubles without number have surrounded me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me.

  • 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

  • 5 For He will hide me in His shelter on the day of trouble. He will conceal me in the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

  • 5 For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

  • 12 A wind too strong for these will come from me; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.

  • 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

  • 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat – for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.

  • 19 when suddenly a mighty wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them, and they are dead. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'

  • 1 A psalm of David. LORD, I call to You; hurry to me. Hear my voice when I cry out to You.

  • 19 Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone forth in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

  • 2 Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

  • 4 You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the currents surrounded me. All Your waves and breakers swept over me.

  • 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • 10 I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

  • 17 For He crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.

  • 18 My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  • 9 Like a slug that melts away as it moves, like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

  • 9 The storm comes from its chamber, and the cold winds from the north.

  • 16 I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You. I have not desired the day of disaster. You know what has come from my lips; it was before You.

  • 12 Destruction is in its midst; oppression and deceit do not leave its streets.

  • 16 May death seize them suddenly; let them go down alive into Sheol, for evil is in their dwelling and within them.

  • 22 Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, do not be far from me!

  • 25 For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind, which lifted the waves of the sea.

  • 8 With exact measure, by sending her away, you contend with her. He drives her out with his fierce wind on the day of the east wind.

  • 4 My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • 3 From the ends of the earth, I call to You when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.