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Psalm 55:4-6
New English Translation

4 My heart beats violently[a] within me;
the horrors of death overcome me.[b]
5 Fear and panic overpower me;[c]
terror overwhelms[d] me.
6 I say,[e] “I wish I had wings like a dove.
I would fly away and settle in a safe place.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:4 tn Heb “shakes, trembles.”
  2. Psalm 55:4 tn Heb “the terrors of death have fallen on me.”
  3. Psalm 55:5 tn Heb “fear and trembling enter into me.”
  4. Psalm 55:5 tn Heb “covers.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the descriptive (present progressive) force of the preceding imperfect.
  5. Psalm 55:6 tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the descriptive (present progressive) force of the verbs in v. 5.
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