hell
Or, the grave.
Let death seize upon them - This would be more correctly rendered, “Desolations (are) upon them!” That is, Desolation, or destruction will certai...
Let death seize upon them, [and] let them (l) go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them. (l) As Korah, Datha...
LV. A Prayer for Deliverance from Treacherous Foes. Psalms 55:1-11 . The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from J...
quick . alive. Compare Numbers 16:30-33 . hell. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35. wickedness. Hebrew. raa (plural)
15 Let death seize upon them. He now denounces the whole faction, not the nation generally, but those who had taken a prominent part in the...
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. Let death seize upon the...
Let death seize upon them, &c.— Death shall exact the debt with usury; they shall descend alive into hades. This version is from Cocceius; an...
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. Let death seize upon t...
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he compla...
Quick into hell] RM 'alive into Sheol.' For the light in which we are to regard such imprecations see Intro.
Let death. — According to the written text we should render desolations upon them. Here we have another sudden outburst of overmastering feeling....
Psalms 55:1-23 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identif...
Friends May Forsake, but God Abideth Psalms 55:12-23 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, d...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his sou...
We must of necessity drop David's history in these verses, to attend to an infinitely greater; for surely what is here said by the Spirit of Christ,...
Let death seize upon them ,.... Ahithophel and his accomplices, Judas and the men with him; as a mighty man, as the king of terrors, and shake them...
Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them. Ver. 15. Let death se...
Let death seize upon them Hebrew, ישׁי מות עלימו, jashi maveth gnaleemo , which Cocceius renders, death will exact the debt with usury , a versio...
Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues...
Them, i.e. him and all such false-hearted wretches, that pretended religion with wicked design, and now have manifestly apostatized, both from the...
He Prays That God Will Deal With His Treacherous Friend, Along With His Associates, By Death ( Psalms 55:15 ). He prays for sudden death to come o...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and...
Psalms 55:6 . Oh that I had wings like a dove, to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But th...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication. The compassionable, the commendable, and the censurable in life I. The...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century b.c. But no solid g...
A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship,...
Let death seize upon them, the treacherous friends, and let them go down quick into hell, into the realm of death, with a living body as in the cas...
2 Samuel 17:23 ; 2 Samuel 18:14 ; 2 Samuel 18:9 ; Acts 1:18-20 ; Acts 1:25 ; Matthew 26:24 ; Matthew 27:5 ; Numbers 16:30-34 ; Psalms 109:6-...
Them — All such as pretend to religion, and have manifestly apostatized both from the profession and practice of it. The grave — Cut off by a sudde...
15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell:c for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.