Psalm 55:15 “Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for…”

Psalm 55:15

Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

Geneva Bible 1599

Let death sense vpon them: let them goe downe quicke into the graue: for wickednes is in their dwellings, euen in the middes of them.

Darby Translation

Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.

Young's Literal Translation

Desolations [are] upon them, They go down [to] Sheol — alive, For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst.

Bible in Basic English

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

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Cross references

“Let death, etc”

Psalm 59:13 Psalm 109:6–20 Acts 1:18–20 2 Samuel 18:14 Matthew 27:5 2 Samuel 18:9

Psalm 59:13 · BSB

Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah

Psalm 109:6–20 · BSB

Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Acts 1:18–20 · BSB

(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.

2 Samuel 18:14 · BSB

But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.

Matthew 27:5 · BSB

So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

2 Samuel 18:9 · BSB

Now 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 wa…

“them”

Numbers 16:30–34 Matthew 26:24 Acts 1:25

Numbers 16:30–34 · BSB

But 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…

Matthew 26:24 · BSB

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

Acts 1:25 · BSB

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

“hell”

Psalm 9:17

Psalm 9:17 · BSB

The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.

Also

Psalm 64:7

Psalm 64:7 · BSB

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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.

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