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13 But it is you, my equal,
    my companion, my familiar friend.
14 We used to hold sweet converse together;
    within God’s house we walked in fellowship.
15 Let death[a] come upon them;
    let them go down to Sheol alive;
    let them go away in terror into their graves.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:15 Or desolations
  2. Psalm 55:15 Cn: Heb evils are in their habitation, in their midst

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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