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Psalms 55:5 — King James Version← Study notes

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.


Psalms 55:5Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 55:57 words
HebrewMeaning
לִ֭בִּ/יlibiy
heart mynounH3820
care for · consent · considered · courag ···
יָחִ֣ילyāḥiyl
it tremblesverbH2342
bring forth · calve · dance · drive away ···
בְּ/קִרְבִּ֑/יbəqirəbiy
within mepronH7130
among · before · unto charge · eat ···
וְ/אֵימ֥וֹתwəʾēymwōt
and the terrors ofconjH367
fear · horror · idol · terrible ···
מָ֝֗וֶתmāwet
deathnounH4194
death · die
נָפְל֥וּnāpəlw
they have fallenverbH5307
cast (down · self · out) · cease ···
עָלָֽ/יʿālāy
on mepronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 55:5

1. Of this Psalm the title is: “At the end, in hymns, understanding to David himself.” What the “end” is, we will briefly call to your recollection, because you have known it. “For the end of the Law is Christ, for righteousness unto every man believing.” Romans 10:4 Be the attention therefore directed unto the End, directed unto Christ. Wherefore is He called the end? Because whatever we do, to Him we refer it, and when to Him we shall have come home, more to ask we shall…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 55 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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