Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
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.
Darby Translation
Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
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.
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 entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end. 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Cross References
Psalm 35:6
Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste."
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish -- vanish like smoke.
Psalm 37:24
Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
Psalm 37:35-38
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalm 55:23
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Psalm 92:7
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Psalm 94:23
He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
Jeremiah 23:12
Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,