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13 but it is you—
    a man whom I treated as my equal—
my personal confidant,
    my close friend!

14 We had good fellowship together;
    and we even walked together in the house of God!

15 Let death seize them!
    May they be plunged alive into the afterlife,[a]
for wicked things are in their homes
    and among them.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:15 Lit. into Sheol; a reference to the realm of the dead

13 But it is you, a man like myself,
    my companion, my close friend,(A)
14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship(B)
    at the house of God,(C)
as we walked about
    among the worshipers.

15 Let death take my enemies by surprise;(D)
    let them go down alive to the realm of the dead,(E)
    for evil finds lodging among them.

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