Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I would make haste to escape from the stormy wind 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."
Themes
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 55:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Betrayal By A Friend
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. 9 Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
Cross References
Psalm 18:4
Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Isaiah 4:6
And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from drought, And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from rain!
Isaiah 17:12-13
Woe to the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And to the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.
Matthew 7:25-27
and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.