Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a 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.

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.

References

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Easton

Context Readings

Betrayal By A Friend

6 And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest, 7 Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah. 8 I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:2

Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.

1 Samuel 27:1

And David saith unto his heart, 'Now am I consumed one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing for me better than that I diligently escape unto the land of the Philistines, and Saul hath been despairing of me -- of seeking me any more in all the border of Israel, and I have escaped out of his hand.'

2 Samuel 15:14

And David saith to all his servants who are with him in Jerusalem, 'Rise, and we flee, for we have no escape from the face of Absalom; haste to go, lest he hasten, and have overtaken us, and forced on us evil, and smitten the city by the mouth of the sword.'

2 Samuel 17:21-22

And it cometh to pass, after their going on, that they come up out of the well, and go and declare to king David, and say unto David, 'Rise ye, and pass over hastily the waters, for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.'

Proverbs 6:4-5

Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

Jeremiah 37:12

that Jeremiah goeth out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin, to receive a portion thence in the midst of the people.

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