Psalms 55:15
Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
16But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
2 Samuel 18:9Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
Psalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
Psalms 109:6Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
Matthew 27:5So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then 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 →