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Psalms 55:15

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is amongst them, in their dwelling.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

In Context

14We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

16As for me, I will call on God. The LORD will save me.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:30But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.”

2 Samuel 18:9Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Psalms 64:7But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

Psalms 109:6Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

Matthew 27:5He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary and departed. 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

King James VersionBíblia Portuguesa MundialLuther Bibel (Deutsch)Bible Louis Segond (Français)Библия (Русский)新标点和合本성경 (한국어)الكتاب المقدس باللغة العربية، فان دايكBibbia Diodati (Italiano)Kinh Thánh (Tiếng Việt)Biblia Cornilescu (Română)Polish Biblia Gdanska (1881)Statenvertaling (Nederlands)

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