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Psalms 55:15

Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

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ASV

Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

KJV

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יַשִּׁ֤י מָ֨וֶת׀ya.Shi Ma.vetmay it deceive deathH5377 →H4194 →
עָלֵ֗ימוֹ'a.Lei.movon themH5921 →
יֵרְד֣וּye.re.Dumay they go downH3381 →
שְׁא֣וֹלshe.'olSheolH7585 →
חַיִּ֑יםchai.YimaliveH2416 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
רָע֖וֹתra.'otevil deedsH7451 →
בִּמְגוּרָ֣םbim.gu.Ram[are] in sojourning-place theirH4033 →
בְּקִרְבָּֽם׃be.kir.Bamin inner being theirH7130 →

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Psalms 59:13Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. SelahPsalms 63:9But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.Acts 1:18–20(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.Psalms 109:6–20Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.Psalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.Isaiah 5:14Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!2 Samuel 18:14But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”Matthew 27:5So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.Acts 1:25to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”Numbers 16:30–34But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”Numbers 16:30But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”2 Samuel 18:9Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.Acts 1:18(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.Psalms 69:22–28May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.Ezekiel 32:21Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’Psalms 5:10Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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