Psalms 73:19
How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
In Context
18Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
20As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
Cross References
Numbers 17:12And the sons of Israel speak unto Moses, saying, 'Lo, we have expired; we have perished; we have all of us perished;
1 Samuel 28:20And Saul hasteth and falleth — the fulness of his stature — to the earth, and feareth greatly because of the words of Samuel; also power was not in him, for he had not eaten bread all the day, and all the night.
Job 18:11Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
Job 20:23It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.
Proverbs 28:1The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
Isaiah 21:3Therefore filled have been my loins [with] great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.
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 →