Psalms 55:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:32 : 32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
  • Ps 5:6 : 6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.
  • Prov 10:27 : 27 The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business. 5 And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss. 10 But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5-6 : 5 Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause. 6 So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
  • Prov 27:20 : 20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
  • Eccl 7:17 : 17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?
  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made 16 His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
  • Ps 25:2 : 2 O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
  • Ps 59:12-13 : 12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit, 13 Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)
  • Ps 73:18 : 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • 10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • 22 Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

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    6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

  • 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

  • Ps 56:6-7
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    6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

    7 By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

  • 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    3 How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

    4 Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

  • 14 But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

  • 13 Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

  • 11 In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.

  • 15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • 9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

  • 6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • 8 They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

  • Ps 56:3-4
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    3 In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

    4 In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.

  • 12 There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

  • 23 And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

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    48 It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

    49 He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

  • 13 Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

  • 11 Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

  • 2 Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

  • 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

  • 38 But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

  • 8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • 14 O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

  • 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • 10 Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.

  • 4 O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.

  • 40 And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

  • 3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

  • 8 But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.

  • 5 Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

  • 1 Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

  • 9 Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

  • 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

  • 20 Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

  • 15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

  • 3 Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

  • 28 For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but your eyes are on men of pride, to make them low.

  • 48 He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

  • 7 But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.