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.
ASV Byzantine Text
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 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, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.
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 heaven and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 64:7But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
Psalms 109:6Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
Matthew 27:5And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he 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 →