Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

New American Standard Bible

“Behold, I would wander far away,
I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.

King James Version

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

Holman Bible

How far away I would flee;
I would stay in the wilderness.Selah

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.

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.

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

American

Easton

Context Readings

Betrayal By A Friend

6 And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. 8 I would make haste to escape from the stormy wind and tempest."


Cross References

Jeremiah 9:2

Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.

1 Samuel 27:1

Then thought David in his heart, "I may perish, one day or other, by the hands of Saul. There is no better for me, than to flee into the land of the Philistines; that Saul, of very despair to find me, may cease to seek me anymore in all the coasts of Israel: for so I may escape his hand."

2 Samuel 15:14

Then said David unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, "Up, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart; lest he come suddenly and catch us and bring some mischief upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword."

2 Samuel 17:21-22

And as soon as they were departed, the other came out of the well, and went and told King David and said unto him, "Up, and get you quickly over the water for such counsel hath Ahithophel given."

Proverbs 6:4-5

let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber.

Jeremiah 37:12

Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem toward the land of Benjamin, to do certain business there among the people.

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