“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
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“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
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I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
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(55-9) I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'
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Passages linked to Psalms 55:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 4:6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
- Matthew 7:25-27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
- Psalms 18:4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Isaiah 17:12-13 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain From the cruel rage and tyranny of Saul.
From the cruel rage and tyranny of Saul.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 55:8 I would hasten my escape from the…
Psa 55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.
Ver. 8. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm, &c.] I would thrust my ship into any creek in the whole world, go as far as my legs, nay, wings, could carry me. Of the swiftness of the dove’s flight, see Plin. l. 10, c. 37; and how David hastened his flight from Absalom, see 2Sa 15:14.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain From the force and fury of mine enemies, which…
From the force and fury of mine enemies, which now highly threaten me.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I would hasten my escape from the windy storm…
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. Of an army of rebellious subjects, bearing down all before them, and threatening with utter ruin and destruction; so a powerful army of enemies invading a country is signified by a storm and tempest, Isa 28:2; and may be expressive of the storm and tempest of divine wrath and vengeance the sensible sinner hastens his escape from by fleeing to Christ; and of the blowing and furious winds of persecution, which the church, Christ's dove, flees from, by getting into the clefts of the rock, and the secret places of the stairs, Sol 2:14; and of the storms of divine wrath and justice that fell upon Christ as the surety of his people; from which the human nature, seized with fearfulness, trembling, and horror, desired an hasty escape.
; and of the storms of divine wrath and justice that fell upon Christ as the surety of his people; from which the human nature, seized with fearfulness, trembling, and horror, desired an hasty escape.
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psa 55:9Destroy, O Lord,.... Or "swallow up" (s), as Pharaoh and his host were swallowed up in the Red sea; or as Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, were swallowed up in the earth; so all the enemies of Christ and his church will be destroyed; and death, the last of them, will be swallowed up in victory, Isa 25:8. The Targum interprets it, "destroy", or "scatter their counsel": but this seems to be intended in the next clause;
and divide their tongues: as at the confusion of languages at Babel, to which the allusion is: this had its accomplishment in Absalom's counsellors according to David's wish, Sa2 15:31; and in the Jewish sanhedrim in Christ's time, and in the witnesses they produced against him, Luk 23:51; and of which there is an instance in the council of the Jews, held on account of the Apostle Paul, Act 23:7;
for I have seen violence and strife in the city: in the city of Jerusalem, now left by David, and possessed by Absalom, by whom "violence" was done to David's wives, through the advice of Ahithophel; and "strife", contention, and rebellion, were fomented among the people: this David saw, understood, and perceived, by the intelligence brought him from time to time: and in the times of Christ the kingdom of heaven suffered "violence" in this place, and he endured the "contradiction" of sinners against himself.
(s) "degluti", Montanus, Tigurine version; "absorbe", Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Tempest - From the force and fury of mine…
Tempest - From the force and fury of mine enemies.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. The windy storm] From the sweeping wind…
Verse 8. The windy storm] From the sweeping wind and tempest-Absalom and his party and the mutinous people in general.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I would hasten my escape - I would make…
I would hasten my escape - I would make haste to secure an escape. I would not delay, but I would flee at once.
From the windy storm and tempest - From the calamities which have come upon me, and which beat upon me like a violent tempest. If this psalm was composed on occasion of the rebellion of Absalom, it is easy to see with what propriety tiffs language is used. The troubles connected with that unnatural rebellion had burst upon him with the fury of a sudden storm, and threatened to sweep everything away.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. Storm and tempest—The description is of one of…
8. Storm and tempest—The description is of one of those tropical winds which swept away every moveable thing in its course. From such a scene in society and government he would gladly hasten his escape; and the mountain gorge on his present route, so proverbial for its dangers, might well suggest Psa_55:7-8. From these sorrowful and plaintive longings a sudden transition is made to just imprecation and a review of public affairs.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. Or as R.V.,
8. Or as R.V.,
I would haste me to a shelter
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From the stormy wind and tempest,
the storms of faction and party spirit raging in the city.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I would hasten my escape from the windy storm…
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. As doves fly from storm and tempest to their nests in the rocks, so the psalmist would fain haste away from the passions and perils of the city to some safe refuge in the wilds. What he here anticipates, he afterwards accomplished, when he fled from Absalom over Jordan. (2Sa_15:14)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 8. I would hasten my escape. He tried…
Ver. 8. I would hasten my escape. He tried to pause but could not, like a horse which when pulled up slips on a little because of the speed at which he was going. David declares that he would not waste a moment, or stay to bid adieu to his friends, but up and away at once, for fear he should be too late, and because he could bear the clamour of his foes no longer.
From the windy storm and tempest. A storm was brewing, and, like a dove, he would outfly it and reach a calmer region. Swifter than the storm cloud would he fly, to avoid the deluge of rain, and the flash of the lightning. Alas! poor soul, no such wings are thine, as yet thou must tarry here and feel the tempest; but be of good cheer, thou shalt stretch thy wings ere long for a bolder flight, heaven shall receive thee, and there thy sorrows shall have a finis of felicity among the birds of paradise.
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Ver. 8. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. There was a windy storm and tempest without, and which is worse, a tumult and combustion within in his thoughts. A man may escape from external confusions, but how shall he fly from himself? If he be out of the reach of all the blood suckers on earth, and all the furies in hell, yet be dogged and haunted with his own turbulent, ungovernable cogitations, he needs no other tormentors. This holy man was thus doubly distressed, a storm abroad and an earthquake at home rendered his condition most dolorous; but for both he hath en mega he goes not about with the foxes of this world to relieve himself with subtle stratagems and wiles, by carnal shifts and policies, a vanity tosses to and from by them that seek death. No, his one great refuge is to get aloft, to ascend to God. Thomas Sharp.
Ver. 8. Too hasty a flight from trial.
1. Would show rebellion against God.
2. Would manifest cowardly want of faith.
3. Would involve loss of useful experience.
4. Would land us in other and worse trials.
5. Would prevent our glorifying God.
6. Would mar our conformity to Christ and fellowship with his people.
7. Would lessen the value of heaven.
Psalms 55:9*
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tempest
a strong storm
Devour them
Destroying something is spoken of as eating all of it. Possible meanings are "Destroy my enemies' plans" or "Destroy my enemies." (See: Metaphor)
confuse their language
"Language" here represents what the people were saying to each other, and probably refers specifically to them talking about plans to do evil. Confusing it represents making the people unable to understand each other. AT: "confuse them when they speak to each other" or "confuse their plans" (See: Metonymy)
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strife
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