Psalms 55:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 4:6 : 6 By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat, as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.
  • Isa 17:12-13 : 12 Beware, you many nations massing together, those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves. Beware, you people making such an uproar, those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves. 13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.
  • Matt 7:25-27 : 25 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation had been laid on rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

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  • Ps 83:15
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    15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.

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    14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

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    9Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.

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

    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • Ps 148:8
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    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

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    22You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

  • Ps 11:1
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    1For the music director; by David. In the LORD I have taken shelter. How can you say to me,“Flee to a mountain like a bird!

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    9Rescue me from my enemies, O LORD! I run to you for protection.

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    1For the music director; by David; written to get God’s attention. O God, please be willing to rescue me! O LORD, hurry and help me!

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

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    6By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat, as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.

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    8Blessings for the One Who Seeks God“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

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    7Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off–

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    1Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?

  • Ps 40:13
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    13Please be willing, O LORD, to rescue me! O LORD, hurry and help me!

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  • Jer 4:12
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    19and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”

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    17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

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    9A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.

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    4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

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    3Indeed, you are my shelter, a strong tower that protects me from the enemy.