“I would hurry to my place of refuge From the stormy wind and heavy gale.”
Parallel translations
- WEB “I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
- KJV I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
- BSB I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
- NKJV I would hasten my escape From the windy storm and tempest.”
- NLT How quickly I would escape— far from this wild storm of hatred.
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Quick answer
David would hurry to shelter from the storm of trouble around him. It pictures his desire for refuge from raging adversity.
Overview
The stormy wind and tempest stand for the violent conflict besetting him, from which he craves a hiding place. The image conveys both the intensity of his trial and his yearning for safety. Ultimately the psalm directs that longing for shelter toward God himself, the true refuge.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Isa 4:6There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
- Matt 7:25–27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
- Ps 18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Isa 17:12–13Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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