Psalm 55:15 {54:16}
Good News Translation
May my enemies die before their time; may they go down alive into the world of the dead! Evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

New Revised Standard Version
Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol; for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

Contemporary English Version
All who hate me are controlled by the power of evil. Sentence them to death and send them down alive to the world of the dead.

New American Bible
Let death take them; let them go down alive to Sheol, for evil is in their homes and bellies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Let death.

Psalm 59:13 When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and all the ends of the earth.

Psalm 69:22-28 Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock. . . .

Psalm 109:6-20 Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand. . . .

2 Samuel 17:23 But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

2 Samuel 18:9,14 And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth, the mule on which he rode passed on. . . .

Matthew 27:5 And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself with an halter.

Acts 1:18-20 And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out. . . .

them

Numbers 16:30-34 But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. . . .

Matthew 26:24 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.

Acts 1:25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.

hell, or the grave

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Context
Cast Your Burden upon the LORD
14Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent. 15Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.16But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.…
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.

Numbers 16:33
And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.

Psalm 63:9
But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

Psalm 64:7
And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

Proverbs 6:15
Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

Isaiah 47:11
Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst not keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Psalm 55:14
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