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Psa. 55:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

Num. 16:30‑32• ³⁰but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.
³¹And it came to pass when he had ended speaking all these words, that the ground clave apart that was under them.
³²And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property. (Num. 16:30‑32)

or, the grave.

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Let death, etc.Or, rather, "Death shall seize on them; they shall descend quickly into the grave;" which is a prediction of the sudden destruction which befell the ringleaders of this unnatural rebellion.

Psa. 59:13• ¹³Make an end in wrath, make an end, that they may be no more; that they may know that God ruleth in Jacob, unto the ends of the earth. Selah. (Psa. 59:13)

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Psa. 69:22‑28• ²²Let their table become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap;
²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.
²⁴Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger take hold of them.
²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; let there be no dweller in their tents.
²⁶For they persecute him whom *thou* hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
²⁷Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. (Psa. 69:22‑28)

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Psa. 109:6‑20• ⁶Set a wicked man over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand;
⁷When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin;
⁸Let his days be few, let another take his office;
⁹Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
¹⁰Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
¹¹Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;
¹²Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;
¹³Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;
¹⁵Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:
¹⁶Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.
¹⁷And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.
¹⁸And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;
¹⁹Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded.
²⁰Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul. (Psa. 109:6‑20)

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2 Sam. 17:23• ²³And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went to his house, to his city, and gave charge to his household, and hanged himself, and he died; and he was buried in the sepulchre of his father. (2 Sam. 17:23)

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2 Sam. 18:9,14• ⁹And Absalom found himself in the presence of David's servants. And Absalom was riding upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of the great terebinth, and his head caught in the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
¹⁴Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them into Absalom's body, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth. (2 Sam. 18:9,14)

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Matt. 27:5• ⁵And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself. (Matt. 27:5)

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Acts 1:18‑20• ¹⁸(This man then indeed got a field with the reward of iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
¹⁹And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)
²⁰For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership. (Acts 1:18‑20)

them.

Num. 16:30‑34• ³⁰but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.
³¹And it came to pass when he had ended speaking all these words, that the ground clave apart that was under them.
³²And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property.
³³And they went down, they and all that they had, alive into Sheol, and the earth covered them; and they perished from among the congregation.
³⁴And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up! (Num. 16:30‑34)

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Matt. 26:24• ²⁴The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born. (Matt. 26:24)

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Acts 1:25• ²⁵to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place. (Acts 1:25)

hell.

or, the grave.

Psa. 9:17• ¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God. (Psa. 9:17)

• For this wicked man, and those associated with him, the psalmist predicts a sudden and overwhelming judgment (Rev. 19:20). (“Psalms 55” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

Let death seize upon theme, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.

JND Translation Notes

Some read "Desolation be upon them!"