Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, and walked in the house of God as friends. 15 Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings. 16 As for me, I will call unto God, and the LORD shall save me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30-34
But and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD."
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his own house and to his own city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
2 Samuel 18:9
And it chanced Absalom to come before the servants of David riding upon a mule which carried him under the thick boughs of a great oak. And his head caught in the oak, and he was left between heaven and earth, and the mule that was under him went his way.
2 Samuel 18:14
Then said Joab, "I may not stand tarrying with thee. And therewith he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive on the body of the tree.
Psalm 9:17
The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God.
Psalm 59:13
Consume them in thy wrath; consume them that they may perish, and know that it is God which ruleth in Jacob and in all the world. Selah.
Psalm 64:7
But God shall suddenly shoot with a swift arrow, that they shall be wounded.
Psalm 69:22-28
Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal; and let the things that should have been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling.
Psalm 109:6-20
Set an ungodly man to be ruler over him, and let Satan stand at his righthand.
Matthew 26:24
The son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the son of man shall be betrayed. It had been good for that man, if he had never been born."
Matthew 27:5
And he cast down the silver plates in the temple, and departed, and went and hung himself.
Acts 1:18-20
And the same hath now possessed a plot of ground with the reward of iniquity. And when he was hanged, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
Acts 1:25
that the one may take the room of this ministration, and apostleship from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."