Psalms 73:19
How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
In Context
18Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.
20As a dream from awakening, O LORD, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.
Cross References
Numbers 17:12And the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
1 Samuel 28:20Then Saul fell straightway his full length upon the earth, and was greatly afraid because of the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
Job 20:23When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating.
Proverbs 28:1A wicked man flees when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Isaiah 21:3Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
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 →