Psalms 55:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Psalms 55:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Psalms 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Psalms 73:18
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Ecclesiastes 7:17
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-23)

In these verses, I. David perseveres in his resolution to call upon God, being well assured that he should not seek him in vain (Ps. 55:16): “ As for me, let them take what course they please to secure themselves, let violence and strife be their guards, prayer shall be mind; this I have found comfort in, and therefore this will I abide by: I will call upon God, and commit myself to him, and the L…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. bloody ... days--(compare Psa 5:6; 51:14), deceit and murderous dispositions often united. The threat is directed specially (not as a general truth) against the wicked, then in the writer’s view.