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[a]My heart[b] is filled with anguish,
    and I am beset by the terrors of death.
Fear and trembling overpower me;
    horror overwhelms me.
I say, “If only I had wings like a dove
    so that I could fly away and be at rest!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:5 So great is the physical danger and the mental anguish (see Pss 18:5f; 116:3) that the psalmist wishes he could run away from it all (see Jer 9:1-5).
  2. Psalm 55:5 Heart: see note on Ps 4:8.