Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
New American Standard Bible
You cast them down to
King James Version
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Holman Bible
You make them fall into ruin.
International Standard Version
You have certainly set them in slippery places; you will make them fall to their ruin.
A Conservative Version
Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.
American Standard Version
Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
Amplified
Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Bible in Basic English
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
Julia Smith Translation
Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins.
King James 2000
Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
Modern King James verseion
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.
NET Bible
Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
New Heart English Bible
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, in slippery places, dost thou set them, - Thou hast suffered them to fall into places of danger.
Webster
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.
World English Bible
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
Themes
Envy » Prosperity of the wicked should not excite
Happiness » Of the wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness » Of the wicked » Saints often permitted to see the end of
Happiness of the The Wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness of the The Wicked » Saints often permitted to see the end of
Insecurity of the wicked » General references to
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Put in slippery places
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 73:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Ways Vindicated
17 Until I went into the sanctuaries of God; then understood I their end. 18 Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins. 19 How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
Cross References
Psalm 35:6
Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Jehovah pursue them.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Psalm 37:20
For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.
Psalm 37:24
though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for Jehovah upholdeth his hand.
Psalm 37:35-38
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:
Psalm 55:23
And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
Psalm 94:23
And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.
Jeremiah 23:12
Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who shall pay the penalty of everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might,