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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

诗篇 55:8

我要趕快到我避難的地方去,逃避狂風暴雨。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wind, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Dove;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Rest;   Sin;   Whirlwind;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Storm;   Tempest;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Rime;   Selah;   Wilderness;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 4;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 必 速 速 逃 到 避 所 , 脱 离 狂 风 暴 雨 。

Contextual Overview

1

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David.

God, listen to my prayer and do not ignore my cry for help. 2 Pay attention to me and answer me. I am troubled and upset 3 by what the enemy says and how the wicked look at me. They bring troubles down on me, and in anger they attack me. 4 I am frightened inside; the terror of death has attacked me. 5 I am scared and shaking, and terror grips me. 6 I said, "I wish I had wings like a dove. Then I would fly away and rest. 7 I would wander far away and stay in the desert. Selah 8 I would hurry to my place of escape, far away from the wind and storm."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the windy storm: From the sweeping wind and tempest, - Absalom and his rebellious party. Psalms 18:4, Isaiah 17:12, Isaiah 17:13, Matthew 7:25-27

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 17:16 - but speedily Job 40:23 - hasteth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest. Of an army of rebellious subjects, bearing down all before them, and threatening with utter ruin and destruction; so a powerful army of enemies invading a country is signified by a storm and tempest,

Isaiah 28:2; and may be expressive of the storm and tempest of divine wrath and vengeance the sensible sinner hastens his escape from by fleeing to Christ; and of the blowing and furious winds of persecution, which the church, Christ's dove, flees from, by getting into the clefts of the rock, and the secret places of the stairs, Song of Solomon 2:14; and of the storms of divine wrath and justice that fell upon Christ as the surety of his people; from which the human nature, seized with fearfulness, trembling, and horror, desired an hasty escape.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I would hasten my escape - I would make haste to secure an escape. I would not delay, but I would flee at once.

From the windy storm and tempest - From the calamities which have come upon me, and which beat upon me like a violent tempest. If this psalm was composed on occasion of the rebellion of Absalom, it is easy to see with what propriety tiffs language is used. The troubles connected with that unnatural rebellion had burst upon him with the fury of a sudden storm, and threatened to sweep everything away.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 55:8. The windy storm — From the sweeping wind and tempest-Absalom and his party and the mutinous people in general.


 
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