Psalm 55:6 {54:7}
Good News Translation
I wish I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and find rest.

New Revised Standard Version
And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;

Contemporary English Version
I wish I had wings like a dove, so I could fly far away and be at peace.

New American Bible
I say, “If only I had wings like a dove that I might fly away and find rest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?

Psalm 11:1 Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Psalm 139:9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:

Revelation 12:14 And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Context
Cast Your Burden upon the LORD
5Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me. 6And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?7Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.…
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Jeremiah 9:2
Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

Jeremiah 48:28
Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab: and be ye like the dove that maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole in the highest place.

Psalm 55:5
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