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 them So the Qeri' reads-literally, 'Let death deceive upon them,' - i:e., take them by surprise х yashiy (H5377) maawet (H4194), from naasha' (H5377), to deceive]. But the phrase, 'deceive upon' х `al (H5921)] is without example; and this reading has arisen from a desire to make the parallelism between the first and second clauses more exact. Read, therefore, as the Kethibh or Hebrew text, '(Let) desolations [yªshiymowt] (come) upon them.'
And let them go down quick into hell - "quick," not meaning fast, but living, as Korah and his company; cf. Psalms 55:9, note, and Psalms 55:23; a sudden destruction in the midst of life and strength.
For wickedness is in their dwellings. So wicked are they that wherever they set their foot, they leave the defiling traces of their wickedness (Muis).