Psalms 55:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

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  • Isa 4:6 : 6 And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from drought, And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from rain!
  • Isa 17:12-13 : 12 Wo `to' the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And `to' the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted. 13 Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
  • Matt 7:25-27 : 25 and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; 27 and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

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  • Ps 55:3-7
    5 verses
    82%

    3Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

    4My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

    5Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.

    6And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

    7Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.

  • 15So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

  • Job 30:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.

    15He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

  • 9Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

  • Job 27:21-22
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    21Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

    22And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

  • 8Fire and hail, snow and vapour, Whirlwind doing His word;

  • 22Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.

  • 1To the Overseer. -- By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, `They moved `to' Thy mountain for the bird?

  • 22And I -- I have said in my haste, `I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

  • 9Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered.

  • 1To the Overseer, by David. -- `To cause to remember.' O God, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help, haste.

  • 27When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

  • 6And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from drought, And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from rain!

  • 8Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

  • 1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath come, From a fearful land.

  • 1To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure of David, in his fleeing from the face of Saul into a cave. Favour me, O God, favour me, For in Thee is my soul trusting, And in the shadow of Thy wings I trust, Until the calamities pass over.

  • 7From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

  • 1Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

  • 13Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help make haste.

  • 7Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee?

  • 5For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.

  • 5When the breakers of death compassed me, The streams of the worthless terrify me,

  • 12A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.

  • 9I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,

  • 4For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible `is' as a storm -- a wall.

  • 19And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.'

  • 1A Psalm, by David. O Jehovah, I have called Thee, haste to me, Give ear `to' my voice when I call to Thee.

  • 19Lo, a whirlwind of Jehovah -- Fury hath gone out, even a piercing whirlwind, On the head of the wicked it stayeth.

  • 2And each hath been as a hiding-place `from' wind, And as a secret hiding-place `from' inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.

  • 4And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

  • 13O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

  • 10Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

  • 17Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

  • 18My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.

  • 9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

  • 9From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds -- cold,

  • 16And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou -- Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,

  • 12For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear `it', He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.

  • 16I -- to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.

  • 22Haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!

  • 25And He saith, and appointeth a tempest, And it lifteth up its billows,

  • 8In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,

  • 4And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

  • 3For Thou hast been a refuge for me, A tower of strength because of the enemy.