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Psalms 55:8
Psalms 55:8 is verse 8 of Psalms chapter 55, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
King James Version
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
World English Bible
“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
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Psalms 55:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
7 How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
8 I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
9 O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
Isaiah 17:12Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
Matthew 7:25The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
Matthew 7:26But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Matthew 7:27The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”