Psalms 55:16
\55:15\Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
In Context
15\55:14\We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.
17\55:16\As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.
Cross References
Psalms 50:15Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
Psalms 91:15When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
Luke 6:11But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.
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 →