Psalms 55:8 · KJV
“I would hasten my escape from the windy storm {and} tempest.”
— Psalms 55:8
Lo, {then} would I wander far off, {and} remain in the wilderness. Selah.
Destroy, O Lord, {and} divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 55 — Context
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! {for then} would I fly away, and be at rest.
7Lo, {then} would I wander far off, {and} remain in the wilderness. Selah.
8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm {and} tempest.
9Destroy, O Lord, {and} divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow {are} in the midst of it.
Cross References
Isaiah 4:6
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Matthew 7:25-27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Psalms 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. {ungodly men: Heb. Belial}
Isaiah 17:12-13
Woe to the multitude of many people, {which} make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, {that} make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! {multitude: or, noise} {mighty: or, many}