Add parallel Print Page Options

15 Let death steal over them;
    let them go down to Sheol (A)alive;
    for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

For their crime will they escape?
    (A)In wrath (B)cast down the peoples, O God!

Read full chapter

Because of their wickedness do not[a] let them escape;(A)
    in your anger, God, bring the nations down.(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 56:7 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have do not.

11 Kill them not, lest my people forget;
    make them totter[a] by your power and (A)bring them down,
    O Lord, our (B)shield!

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 59:11 Or wander

11 But do not kill them, Lord our shield,[a](A)
    or my people will forget.(B)
In your might uproot them
    and bring them down.(C)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 59:11 Or sovereign