Psalms 55:6
And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
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Psalms 55:6
And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
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Psalms 55:3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
Psalms 55:4
My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
Psalms 55:5
Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
Psalms 55:6
And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
Psalms 55:7
I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)
Psalms 55:8
I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.
Psalms 55:9
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Psalms 55:10
By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
Psalms 55:11
Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
Jeremiah 9:2
If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
2 Samuel 15:14
And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword.
Psalms 56:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.
Proverbs 6:5
Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
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Psalms 11:1
For the chief music-maker. Of David. In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?
Jeremiah 48:28
O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.
Song of Solomon 2:14
O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.
Revelation 12:14
And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
Jeremiah 48:9
Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.
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Isaiah 60:8
Who are these coming like a cloud, like a flight of doves to their windows?
Hosea 11:11
Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.
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Genesis 8:9
But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.
Exodus 33:14
And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest.
Job 3:17
There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
Psalms 23:2
He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters.
Psalms 116:7
Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.
Isaiah 14:3
And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,
Isaiah 28:12
To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.
Isaiah 30:15
For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
Hebrews 4:3
For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.
Revelation 14:13
And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.
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Psalms 120:5
Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.
Psalms 120:6
My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.
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