Psalm 55:15
Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Note hell: or, the grave
Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
Note Sheol is the place of the dead.
Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Psalm 55:15
- Let death, etc. Or, rather, "Death shall seize on them; they shall descend quickly into the grave;" which is a prediction of the sudden destruction which befell the ringleaders of this unnatural rebellion.
- Psalm 59:13; Psalm 69:22–28; Psalm 109:6–20; 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 18:9, 14; Matthew 27:5; Acts 1:18–20
- them
- Numbers 16:30–34; Matthew 26:24; Acts 1:25
- hell
- or, the grave.
- Psalm 9:17