Psalms 55:15
May sudden death seize upon them! May they go down to the underworld alive! For wickedness is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14We held sweet converse together, And walked to the house of God in company.
16As for me, I will call upon God, And Jehovah will save me.
Cross References
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be driven into the underworld; Yea, all the nations that forger God.
Psalms 64:7But God will shoot an arrow at them; 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 in the temple, and withdrew; 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 →