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I am shaking with fear!
    My troubles are too much for me.
So I say, ‘If I had wings to fly like a dove,
    I would fly away to a safe place.
Yes! I would go far away,
    and I would live in the wilderness.
Selah.

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Fear and trembling(A) have beset me;
    horror(B) has overwhelmed me.
I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest.
I would flee far away
    and stay in the desert;[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and in the middle of verse 19.