Psalms 55:23

World English Bible (2000)

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:32 : 32 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.
  • Ps 5:6 : 6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
  • Prov 10:27 : 27 The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5-6 : 5 "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh-- how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
  • Prov 27:20 : 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.
  • Eccl 7:17 : 17 Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made. 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
  • Ps 25:2 : 2 My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph over me.
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
  • Ps 59:12-13 : 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter. 13 Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.
  • Ps 73:18 : 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

    19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

    23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

  • 10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • 22 Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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    6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 56:6-7
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    6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

    7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

  • 15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    3 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

    4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • 14 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

  • 13 For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

  • 11 I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

  • 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

  • 9 But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

  • 8 They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.

  • Ps 56:3-4
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    3 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

    4 In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

  • 12 There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise. By David.

  • 23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

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    48 even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,

    49 who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

  • 13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

  • 11 Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

  • 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

  • 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

  • 38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • 14 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

  • 12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

  • 10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.

  • 4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

  • 40 Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

  • 3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • 8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.

  • 5 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

  • 1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

  • 9 Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

  • 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

  • 20 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:

  • 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • 3 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

  • 28 You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

  • 48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

  • 7 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.