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Psalm 55:6

I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

4My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
6I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
7Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.
8“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
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Notice

Wings like a dove express a longing for distance from terror, where even a far-off wilderness seems like a place to rest.

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What would you want distance from if you had the dove’s wings described here?

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What would being at rest look like beyond a change of place?

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Where else Scripture says this

4 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Revelation 12:14Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, times, …Both passages connect wings with flight toward the wilderness, though the psalm expresses a wish and Revelation describes wings being given.
Psalm 11:1For the Chief Musician. By David. In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?Both picture escape through a bird’s flight; Psalm 55 longs to leave, while Psalm 11 questions advice to flee.
Psalm 139:9If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,Both use wings to picture reaching a distant place; Psalm 55 names rest as the hoped-for end of that flight.
Jeremiah 48:9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.Both picture wings as a means of escape, though Jeremiah’s words concern Moab and the coming desolation of its cities.
Where this verse fits

Anxiety or panic. burnout. fear for the future.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Set aside ten quiet minutes in a safe place

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Encouragement

The wish to fly away remains a wish in this verse. Scripture preserves that unfinished cry, with fear still present and rest still longed for.

Now put it in your words.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).