Parallel Verses
Amplified
Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast 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.
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.
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 came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood [for I considered] their end.
Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!
Cross References
Psalm 35:6
Let their way be dark and slippery,
With the angel of the Lord pursuing and harassing them.
Deuteronomy 32:35
‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,
In due time their foot will slip;
For the day of their disaster is at hand,
And their doom hurries to meet them.’
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked (ungodly) will perish,
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
Psalm 37:24
When he falls, he will not be hurled down,
Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand and sustains him.
Psalm 37:35-38
I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,
Psalm 55:23
But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;
Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.
But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.
Psalm 92:7
That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.
Psalm 94:23
He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.
Jeremiah 23:12
“Therefore their way will be to them like slippery paths
In the dark; they will be pushed and fall into them;
For I will bring disaster on them,
In the year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
These people will pay the penalty and endure the punishment of