Psalms 73:18
Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
In Context
17until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end.
19How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
Psalms 37:20But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of LORD [is] as the fat of lambs: they shall disintegrate; they shall disintegrate away into smoke.
Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,
Psalms 94:23And he has brought upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. LORD our God will cut them off.
2 Thessalonians 1:9Men who will suffer punishment, a penalty of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:16-21
The End of the Wicked. 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt… Read the whole commentary →