Psalms 55:15
(55-16) May He incite death against them, let them go down alive into the nether-world; for evil is in their dwelling, and within them.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
14(55-15) We took sweet counsel together, in the house of God we walked with the throng.
16(55-17) As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have despised the 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 terebinth, and his head caught hold of the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
Psalms 9:17(9-18) The wicked shall return to the nether-world, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 64:7(64-8) But God doth shoot at them with an arrow suddenly; thence are their wounds.
Psalms 109:6'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
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 →