Psalms 73:18
Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
In Context
17Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
19How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time — doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
Psalms 37:20But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
Psalms 92:7When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity — For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
Psalms 94:23And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!
2 Thessalonians 1:9who shall suffer justice — destruction age-during — from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,
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 →