Psalm 55:6 {54:7}
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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.

Lexicon
I said,
וָאֹמַ֗ר (wā·’ō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Oh,
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

that
יִתֶּן־ (yit·ten-)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

I had wings
אֵ֭בֶר (’ê·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 83: A pinion

like a dove!
כַּיּוֹנָ֗ה (kay·yō·w·nāh)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3123: A dove

I would fly away
אָע֥וּפָה (’ā·‘ū·p̄āh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5774: To fly, to faint

and find rest.
וְאֶשְׁכֹּֽנָה׃ (wə·’eš·kō·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7931: To settle down, abide, dwell


Additional Translations
I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

And I said, O that I had wings as those of a dove! then would I flee away, and be at rest.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.

And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then I would fly away, and be at rest.

I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,
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