Psalms 55:15
(55:16) Let him dispense death over them; let them go down alive into the nether world; for evil is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
16(55:17) I, however, will call on God: and the Lord will save me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30But if the Lord do create a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertaineth unto them, and they go down alive into the pit: then shall ye understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
2 Samuel 18:9And Abshalom happened to come before the servants of David. And Abshalom was riding upon a mule, and the mule came under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was left hanging between the heaven and the earth: and the mule that was under him passed on.
Psalms 9:17(9:18) The wicked shall return into hell, all the nations that are forgetful of God.
Psalms 64:7(64:8) But God shooteth at them suddenly [his] arrow;—[thence] are come their wounds.
Psalms 109:6Appoint thou a wicked man over him: and let an accuser 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 →