Psalms 55:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Fearfulness and trembling are come on me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Fearfulness and trembling are come on me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
Webster's Revision
Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
World English Bible
Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Clarke's Psalms 55:5 Bible Commentary
Fearfulness - How natural is this description! He is in distress; - he mourns; - makes a noise; - sobs and sighs; - his heart is wounded - he expects nothing but death; - this produces fear; - this produces tremor, which terminates in that deep apprehension of approaching and inevitable ruin that overwhelms him with horror. No man ever described a wounded heart like David.
Barnes's Psalms 55:5 Bible Commentary
Fearfulness and trembling - Fear so great as to produce trembling. Compare the notes at Job 4:14. He knew not when these things would end. How far the spirit of rebellion had spread he knew not, and he had no means of ascertaining. It seemed as if he would be wholly overthrown; as if his power was wholly at an end; as if even his life was in the greatest peril.
And horror hath overwhelmed me - Margin, as in Hebrew, "covered me." That is; it had come upon him so as to cover or envelop him entirely. The shades of horror and despair spread all around and above him, and all things were filled with gloom. The word rendered "horror" occurs only in three other places; - Ezekiel 7:18, rendered (as here) "horror;" Job 21:6, rendered "trembling;" and Isaiah 21:4, rendered "fearfulness." It refers to that state when we are deeply agitated with fear.