Psalms 55:15

"We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company."

Key Reflection

These verses describe a deep bond and shared worship experience between friends, highlighting both the joy derived from communal faith and the pain of its loss when one turns away from God. The "sweet fellowship" symbolizes the intimate relationship with fellow believers in contrast to the bitter realization of their departure.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Let death seize upon them -This would be more correctly rendered, “Desolations (are) upon them!” That is, Desolation, or destruction will certainly come upon them. There is in the original no necessary expression of a wish or prayer that this might be, but it is rather the language of certain assurance - the expression of a fact - that such base conduct - such wickedness - would make their destruction certain; that as God is just, they must be overwhelmed with ruin. Injury is sometimes done in the translation of the Scriptures by the insertion of a wish or prayer, where all that is necessarily implied in the original is the statement of a fact.

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