Psalms 55:8

hasten my escape. Compare 2 Samuel 15:14.

windy storm. wind (Hebrew. ruach. App-9.) of storm.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I would hasten my escape - I would make haste to secure an escape. I would not delay, but I would flee at once. From the windy storm and tempe...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I would hasten my escape (f) from the windy storm [and] tempest. (f) From the cruel rage and tyranny of Saul.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LV. A Prayer for Deliverance from Treacherous Foes. Psalms 55:1-11 . The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from J...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. The windy storm - From the sweeping wind and tempest - Absalom and his party and the mut...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

From the windy storm and tempest— From the sweeping wind and furious tempest. Chandler and Mudge.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. I would hasten my escape - not only would I gladly go, but I would hasten my escap...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he compla...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hasten my escape] RV 'haste me to a shelter.'
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:1-23 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identif...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Fleeing the City's Ills Psalms 55:1-11 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references w...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his sou...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Beautiful similitude of the dove's flight, to describe the soul's earnestness for quiet! Not to fly as a bird of prey, but as a bird of peace. Blesse...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest. Of an army of rebellious subjects, bearing down all before them, and threatening with...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest. Ver. 8. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm, &c. ] I would thrust my sh...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O that I had wings like a dove Hebrew, מי יתן לי, mi jitten li, who will give me wings like a dove? “The dove is remarkable for the swiftness of...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Supplications of David in Distress. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Masc...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

From the force and fury of mine enemies, which now highly threaten me.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Longs To Escape Into A Safe Place Where He Would Find Rest And No Longer be Subjected To His Trials ( Psalms 55:6-8 ). He longs to be able to e...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 55:6-8 I. This is the cry of the faithful soul overpressed by temptation. II. It is the sigh of the heart, weary of the strain of spiritua...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:6 . Oh that I had wings like a dove, to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But th...
The Biblical Illustrator

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication. The compassionable, the commendable, and the censurable in life I. The...
The Biblical Illustrator

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. Dissatisfaction the law of life I. It impels to all ear...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century b.c. But no solid g...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I would hasten my escape, hurrying with the greatest speed to a place of refuge, from the windy storm and tempest, for the rushing violence of the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 17:12 ; Isaiah 17:13 ; Matthew 7:25-27 ; Psalms 18:4
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Tempest — From the force and fury of mine enemies.

⁸ I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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