Psalms 55:15
Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.
16As for me, unto God will I call; and Jehovah will save me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.
2 Samuel 18:9And Absalom found himself in the presence of David's servants. And Absalom was riding upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of the great terebinth, and his head caught in the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 64:7But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;
Psalms 109:6Set a wicked [man] over him, and let [the] adversary stand at his right hand;
Matthew 27:5And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and 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 →