Psalms 55:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 12:14 : 14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
  • Ps 11:1 : 1 > In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
  • Ps 139:9 : 9 If I take the wings of the dawn, And settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

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

    8 "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest."

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

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

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

    5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

  • 1 > Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, For my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, Until disaster has passed.

  • 1 > In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"

  • 9 If I take the wings of the dawn, And settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

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

    7 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

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

  • 7 For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

  • Job 6:8-9
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    8 "Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!

    9 Even 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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    5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

    6 My soul has had her dwelling too long With him who hates peace.

  • 7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

  • 13 While you sleep among the campfires, The wings of a dove sheathed with silver, Her feathers with shining gold.

  • 4 I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.

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

  • 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 9:26-27
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    26 They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.

    27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

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

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

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

    20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

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

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

  • 4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

  • 26 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, And stretches her wings toward the south?

  • 23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

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    6 I am weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.

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

  • 8 As a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home.

  • 10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

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

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

  • 52 They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

  • 18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

  • 22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

  • 7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

  • 15 Terrors are turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

  • 7 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

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

  • 4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

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

  • 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.

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