Psalms 55:4
“My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.”
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.”
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.”
“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.”
“And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”
“Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.”