Psalm 55:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol, for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: For wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Let desolations and death come suddenly upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol (the place of the dead), for evils are in their habitations, in their hearts, and their inmost part.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Let death devastate my enemies; let them go to the grave alive because evil lives with them— even inside them!

Psalm 55:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

2 Samuel 18:14

Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

Psalm 59:13

consume them in wrath; consume them until they are no more. Then it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah

Psalm 64:7

But God will shoot his arrow at them; they will be wounded suddenly.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.”

Matthew 27:5

Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

Acts 1:25

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”