Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I would make haste to escape from the stormy wind and tempest."
New American Standard Bible
From the
King James Version
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Holman Bible
from the raging wind and the storm.”
International Standard Version
I want to deliver myself quickly from this windstorm and tempest."
A Conservative Version
I would hasten myself to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.
American Standard Version
I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.
Amplified
“I would hurry to my refuge [my tranquil shelter far away]
From the stormy wind and from the tempest.”
Bible in Basic English
I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.
Darby Translation
I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.
Julia Smith Translation
I will hasten escape to me from the rushing wind, from the storm.
King James 2000
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I would hurry to my refuge from [the] raging wind [and] storm."
Modern King James verseion
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
NET Bible
I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind and the gale."
New Heart English Bible
"I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."
The Emphasized Bible
I would hasten mine escape, From rushing wind, from storm.
Webster
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."
Youngs Literal Translation
I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
Themes
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 55:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Betrayal By A Friend
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." 9 Destroy their tongues, O LORD, and divide them; for I see unrighteousness and strife in the city.
Cross References
Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. {TYNDALE: For the waves of death have closed me about, and the floods of Belial have feared me.}
Isaiah 4:6
And Jerusalem shall be a tabernacle for a shadow because of heat in the daytime, and place and refuge where a man may keep him from weather and rain.
Isaiah 17:12-13
Woe be to the multitude of much people, which shall make a sound like the noise of the sea; and the violence of the nations which shall rage like the rushing in of many waters.
Matthew 7:25-27
And abundance of rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that same house, and it fell not: because it was grounded on the rock.