Psalms 55:15
I desire/hope that my enemies will die suddenly; while they are still young, cause them to go down to the place where the dead people are. They they think evil things.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
14We previously had many good talks together; we walked around together in God’s temple.
16But I will ask Yahweh, my God, to help me, and he will save me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30But if Yahweh does something that has never happened before, if he causes the ground that is under their feet to open up and swallow these men and their families and all their possessions, and they fall into the opening and are buried while they are still alive, then you will know that these men have insulted Yahweh.”
2 Samuel 18:9During the battle, Absalom suddenly came near some of David’s soldiers. Absalom was riding on his mule; and when the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head/hair was caught in the branches. The mule kept going, but Absalom was left dangling in the air.
Psalms 9:17Wicked people will all die and be buried in their graves, and their spirits will go to be with all those who have ◄forgotten about/rejected► you.
Psalms 64:7But it will be as though God will shoot his arrows at them, and suddenly they will be wounded.
Psalms 109:6They said, “Appoint a wicked judge who will judge him, and bring in one of his enemies who will stand up and accuse him.
Matthew 27:5So Judas took the money and threw it inside the Temple. 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 →