Psalm 73:19

God's Ways Vindicated

¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. ¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

In an Instant

Numbers 16:21

'Be ye separated from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;'

Numbers 17:12-13

And the sons of Israel speak unto Moses, saying, 'Lo, we have expired; we have perished; we have all of us perished;

1 Samuel 28:20

And 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 15:21

A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

Job 18:11

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.

Job 20:5

That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Job 20:23-25

It 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.

Psalm 58:9

Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

Proverbs 28:1

The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.

Isaiah 21:3-4

Therefore 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.

Isaiah 30:13

Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

Isaiah 47:11

And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.

Daniel 5:6

then the king's countenance hath changed, and his thoughts do trouble him, and the joints of his loins are loosed, and his knees are smiting one against another.

Acts 2:23

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;

1 Thessalonians 5:3

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

Revelation 18:10

from afar having stood because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! Babylon, the strong city! because in one hour did come thy judgment.