Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude
New American Standard Bible
I would
King James Version
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
Holman Bible
I would stay in the wilderness.
A Conservative Version
Lo, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.
American Standard Version
Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah
Amplified
“I would wander far away,
I would lodge in the [peace of the] wilderness. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, I will move far off; fleeing away I will lodge in the desert. Silence.
King James 2000
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, I would flee far away. I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah
Modern King James verseion
Lo, I would wander far off; I would lodge in the desert. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
NET Bible
Look, I will escape to a distant place; I will stay in the wilderness. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! I would take a distant flight, I would tarry in the wilderness. Selah.
Webster
Lo, then I would wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
World English Bible
Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 55:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Betrayal By A Friend
6 I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else? 7 Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude 8 I want to deliver myself quickly from this windstorm and tempest."
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
1 Samuel 27:1
David told himself, "One of these days I'll perish by Saul's hand. There is nothing better for me to do than to escape to Philistine territory. Saul will give up searching for me anymore within the borders of Israel, so I'll escape from him."
2 Samuel 15:14
So David told all of his staff who were with him in Jerusalem, "Let's get up and get out of here! Otherwise, none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry, or he'll overtake us quickly, bring disaster on all of us, and execute the inhabitants of the city!"
2 Samuel 17:21-22
A little while later, the men crawled up out of the well and went off to talk to King David. They told David, "Get up! Cross the water quickly, because this is what Ahithophel advised about you""
Proverbs 6:4-5
Don't allow yourself to sleep or even to close your eyes.
Jeremiah 37:12
Jeremiah left Jerusalem to go to the territory of Benjamin to take possession of his property there among the people.