Parallel Verses

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

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Easton

Context Readings

Betrayal By A Friend

6 I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.
7 “Behold, I would wander far away,
I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.
8 “I would hasten to my place of refuge
From the stormy wind and tempest.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous men.

1 Samuel 27:1

Then David said to himself, “Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

2 Samuel 15:14

David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, for otherwise none of us will escape from Absalom. Go in haste, or he will overtake us quickly and bring down calamity on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

2 Samuel 17:21-22

It came about after they had departed that they came up out of the well and went and told King David; and they said to David, “Arise and cross over the water quickly for thus Ahithophel has counseled against you.”

Proverbs 6:4-5

Give no sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Jeremiah 37:12

that Jeremiah went out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin in order to take possession of some property there among the people.

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