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Psalm 55:7

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.

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.”
9Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
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Notice

The wilderness sounds like a place to lodge when fear overwhelms the speaker, capturing how distance itself can begin to look like shelter.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of …Both speakers wish for lodging in the wilderness, far from the people whose violence or treachery troubles them.
2 Samuel 15:14David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee, or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he …The psalm imagines escape from surrounding violence; David urges his servants to flee Jerusalem before Absalom brings violence upon the city.
Jeremiah 37:12then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people.Both passages concern going elsewhere, though Jeremiah’s stated purpose is receiving his portion rather than seeking shelter from fear.
Proverbs 6:4–5Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.The connection is slight: the psalm’s context expresses a longing for rest, while Proverbs tells its reader to forgo sleep.
2 Samuel 17:21–22Both passages concern departure amid danger: the psalm imagines going far off, while David receives an urgent warning to cross the water.
1 Samuel 27:1David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the …Both describe a desire to escape danger by going far away, with David naming Saul as the threat he hopes to evade.
Where this verse fits

Anxiety or panic. injustice and anger. fear for the future.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Tell God where you wish you could retreat

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Encouragement

Your wish for distance can be spoken to God. Here, Scripture records the longing to get away while the fear and violence remain unresolved.

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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).