Parallel Verses
A Conservative 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.
New American Standard Bible
Let them
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.
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.
Holman Bible
let them go down to Sheol alive,
because evil is in their homes and within them.
International Standard Version
Let death seize them! May they be plunged alive into the afterlife, for wicked things are in their homes and among them.
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.
Amplified
Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
For evil [of every kind] is in their dwelling and in their hearts, 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.
Darby Translation
Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.
Julia Smith Translation
Death shall lay waste upon them; they shall go down living to hades, for evils in their sojournings in the midst of them.
King James 2000
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into the grave: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil [is] in their home [and] {heart}.
Modern King James verseion
Let desolation take hold on them, and let them go down alive into hell; for evils are among them in their dwellings.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.
NET Bible
May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.
New Heart English Bible
Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
The Emphasized Bible
Desolations on them! Let them go down into hades alive, For, wicked doings, are at home within them.
Webster
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 in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 55:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Betrayal By A Friend
14 We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng. 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. 16 As for me, I will call upon God, and LORD will save me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30-34
But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
2 Samuel 18:9
And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak. And he was taken up between sky and earth, and t
2 Samuel 18:14
Then Joab said, I will not delay thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
Psalm 9:17
Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 59:13
Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more. And let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalm 64:7
But God will shoot at them. With an arrow they shall suddenly be wounded.
Psalm 69:22-28
Let their table before them become a snare, and when they are in peace, a trap, {and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them (LXX/NT)}.
Psalm 109:6-20
Set thou a wicked man over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
Matthew 26:24
The Son of man indeed goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had not been born.
Matthew 27:5
And having cast down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed, and after going away, he hanged himself.
Acts 1:18-20
(Indeed therefore this man obtained a field from the reward of his unrighteousness, and having become headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.
Acts 1:25
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place.