Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
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.
International Standard Version
Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude
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.
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 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. 8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
1 Samuel 27:1
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any border of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
2 Samuel 15:14
And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.
2 Samuel 17:21-22
And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.
Proverbs 6:4-5
Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Jeremiah 37:12
Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself there in the midst of the people.