Psalms 55:15
Let death come suddenly upon them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng.
16As for me, I will call upon God, and LORD will save me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.
2 Samuel 18:9And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak. And he was taken up between sky and earth, and t
Psalms 9:17Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 64:7But God will shoot at them. With an arrow they shall suddenly be wounded.
Psalms 109:6Set thou a wicked man over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
Matthew 27:5And having cast down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed, and after going away, he hanged himself.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 55:10-16
Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. 12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man… Read the whole commentary →