Psalm 55:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.

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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 ass, and went off home to his own city. And he set his house in order, and hanged himself; and 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.” And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the oak.

2 Samuel 18:9

And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and 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 till they are no more, that men may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. 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 man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

Matthew 27:5

And 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.”