Psalms 55:15

quick. alive. Compare Numbers 16:30-33.

hell. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35. wickedness. Hebrew. raa (plural)

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let death seize upon them - This would be more correctly rendered, “Desolations (are) upon them!” That is, Desolation, or destruction will certai...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Quick into hell] RM 'alive into Sheol.' For the light in which we are to regard such imprecations see Intro.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Let death. — According to the written text we should render desolations upon them. Here we have another sudden outburst of overmastering feeling....
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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,...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let death seize upon them Hebrew, ישׁי מות עלימו, jashi maveth gnaleemo , which Cocceius renders, death will exact the debt with usury , a versio...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Them, i.e. him and all such false-hearted wretches, that pretended religion with wicked design, and now have manifestly apostatized, both from the...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
Scofield Reference Notes

hell Or, the grave.
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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-...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 55:15