Psalms 55:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:120 : 120 My body trembles because I fear you; I am afraid of your judgments.
  • Job 21:6 : 6 For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.
  • Job 23:15-16 : 15 That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him. 16 Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 I am depressed, so I will pray to you while in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to a rocky summit where I can be safe!
  • Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain. 16 Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.
  • Isa 21:4 : 4 My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.
  • Ezek 7:18 : 18 They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
  • 2 Sam 15:14 : 14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem,“Come on! Let’s escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.”
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 55:4
    88%

    4My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.

  • Job 4:14-15
    2 verses
    83%

    14dread gripped me and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

    15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

  • Job 3:25-26
    2 verses
    82%

    25For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

    26I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me.”

  • Job 21:6
    81%

    6For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

  • Isa 21:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.

    4My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.

  • Job 23:15-16
    2 verses
    79%

    15That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.

    16Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

  • Ps 119:53
    79%

    53Rage takes hold of me because of the wicked, those who reject your law.

  • Job 37:1
    78%

    1At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

  • Job 30:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

    16Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.

  • Ps 119:120
    76%

    120My body trembles because I fear you; I am afraid of your judgments.

  • Job 31:23
    76%

    23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5The waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

    6The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.

  • Job 13:21
    75%

    21Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

  • Ps 56:3
    75%

    3When I am afraid, I trust in you.

  • Ps 143:4
    75%

    4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

  • Ps 55:6
    75%

    6I say,“I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

  • Ps 18:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

    5The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.

  • Hab 3:16
    75%

    16Habakkuk Declares His Confidence I listened and my stomach churned; the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, and I shook as I tried to walk. I long for the day of distress to come upon the people who attack us.

  • Job 9:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

    35Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

  • Ps 88:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.

    16Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.

  • Job 4:5
    74%

    5But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.

  • Lam 3:47
    74%

    47Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

  • Prov 1:27
    74%

    27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

  • Ps 116:3
    73%

    3The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

  • Job 18:11
    73%

    11Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

  • Ps 48:6
    73%

    6Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

  • Heb 12:21
    73%

    21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

  • Job 7:14
    73%

    14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

  • Ps 40:12
    73%

    12For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

  • Job 22:10
    72%

    10That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,

  • Job 9:28
    72%

    28I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

  • Jer 30:5
    72%

    5Yes, here is what he says:“You hear cries of panic and of terror; there is no peace in sight.

  • Lam 1:20
    72%

    20ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

  • Jer 5:30
    72%

    30“Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:

  • Ps 49:5
    72%

    5Why should I be afraid in times of trouble, when the sinful deeds of deceptive men threaten to overwhelm me?

  • Isa 41:5
    72%

    5The coastlands see and are afraid; the whole earth trembles; they approach and come.

  • Ps 55:8
    72%

    8I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind and the gale.”

  • Isa 2:21
    71%

    21so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

  • Isa 24:17
    71%

    17Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!

  • Ezek 27:35
    71%

    35All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.