Psalms 55:23

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

“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 around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.

then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men)

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

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

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”

However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

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 Sheba the son of Bichri.

Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

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

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

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

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

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

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

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.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle 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.

David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

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

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

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

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

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

“But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.