Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 had good fellowship together; and we even walked together in the house of God! 15 Let death seize them! May they be plunged alive into the afterlife, for wicked things are in their homes and among them. 16 I call upon God, and the LORD will deliver me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30-34
But if the LORD creates something new, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and everything that belongs to them and they all descend directly to Sheol while still alive, then you'll know that these men have spurned the LORD."
2 Samuel 17:23
Meanwhile, when Ahithophel observed that his counsel was not being acted upon, he saddled his donkey, got up, and left for his hometown. Leaving behind a set of orders for his household, he hanged himself. After his death he was buried in his father's tomb.
2 Samuel 18:9
Absalom happened to run into David's soldiers. While Absalom was trying to get away on his mule, it ran under the thick branches of a giant oak tree, and Absalom's head got caught in the tree! As his mule ran out from under him, Absalom was left hanging above the ground.
2 Samuel 18:14
"There's no reason to wait for you!" Joab retorted. Then he took three spears in his hand and stabbed Absalom in the heart while he was still alive, dangling from the branches of the oak tree.
Psalm 9:17
The wicked will turn back to where the dead are all the nations that have forgotten God.
Psalm 59:13
Go ahead and destroy them in anger! Wipe them out, and they will know to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Interlude
Psalm 64:7
But God shot an arrow at them, and they were wounded immediately.
Psalm 69:22-28
May their dining tables entrap them, and become a snare for their allies.
Psalm 109:6-20
Appoint an evil person over him; may an accuser stand at his right side.
Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him. How terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."
Matthew 27:5
But they replied, "What do we care? Attend to that yourself." Then he flung the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, went outside, ran away, and hanged himself.
Acts 1:18-20
(Now this man bought a field with the money he got for his crime. Falling on his face, he burst open in the middle, and all his intestines gushed out.
Acts 1:25
to serve in this office of apostle, from which Judas left to go to his own place."