Psalms 73:19
How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wholly consumed by terrors.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.
Cross References
Numbers 17:12(17-27) And the children of Israel spoke unto 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 sore 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 overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.
Job 20:23It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.
Proverbs 28:1The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are secure as a young lion.
Isaiah 21:3Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bent so that I cannot hear; I am affrighted 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 →