Psalms 55:15
Desolations [are] upon them, They go down [to] Sheol — alive, For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.
16I — to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol — then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.'
2 Samuel 18:9And Absalom meeteth before the servants of David, and Absalom is riding on the mule, and the mule cometh in under an entangled bough of the great oak, and his head taketh hold on the oak, and he is placed between the heavens and the earth, and the mule that [is] under him hath passed on.
Psalms 9:17The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.
Psalms 64:7And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
Psalms 109:6Appoint Thou over him the wicked, And an adversary standeth at his right hand.
Matthew 27:5and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle 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 →