Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
Topics
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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 to the house of God in company. 15 Let desolation take hold on them, and let them go down alive into hell; for evils are among them in their dwellings. 16 I, even I, will call to God, and Jehovah will save me.
Cross References
Numbers 16:30-34
But if Jehovah makes a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all that they have, and they go down alive into the pit, then you shall understand that these men have provoked Jehovah.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, even he saddled the ass and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order. And he hanged himself and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
2 Samuel 18:9
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on a 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 the heavens and the earth. And the mule under him went away.
2 Samuel 18:14
And Joab said, I cannot stay here with you this way! And he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the midst of the oak.
Psalm 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 59:13
Consume them in wrath; consume, so that they may not be; and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalm 64:7
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded.
Psalm 69:22-28
Let their table become a snare before them; and to those at ease a trap.
Psalm 109:6-20
Set a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand,
Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man goes, as it has been written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.
Matthew 27:5
And he threw the pieces of silver down in the temple and departed. And he went and hanged himself.
Acts 1:18-20
Indeed, then, this one purchased a field with the reward of unrighteousness. And falling headlong, he burst apart in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.
Acts 1:25
to take the share of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell, to go to his own place.