Holy Scripture
Psalms 54:5
A church father on this verse
“After this there is a return to the Person of God, to Whom the petition was at the first addressed: Destroy them by Your truth. Truth confounds falsehood, and lying is destroyed by truth. We have shown that the whole of the foregoing prayer is the utterance of that human nature in which the Son of God was born; so her…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5My heart was troubled within me; And the fear of death fell upon me.
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In context
3Attend to me, and hearken to me: I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled;
4Because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: For they brought iniquity against me, And were wrathfully angry with me.
— Psalms 54:5 —
6Fear and trembling came upon me, And darkness covered me.
7And I said, O that I had wings as those of a dove! Then would I flee away, and be at rest.