Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
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.
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 sanctuary of God. [Then] I understood their fate. 18 Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin. 19 How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.
Cross References
Psalm 35:6
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Deuteronomy 32:35
{Vengeance belongs to me} and [also] recompense, {for at the time their foot slips}, because the day of their disaster [is] near, {and fate comes quickly for them}.'
Psalm 37:20
But [the] wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh [will be] like [the] splendor of [the] pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish.
Psalm 37:24
Though he fall, he will not be cast headlong, for Yahweh supports [him with] his hand.
Psalm 37:35-38
I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.
Psalm 55:23
But you, O God, you will bring them down to [the] pit of corruption. [The] men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.
Psalm 94:23
And he will repay on them their iniquity, and by their evil he will destroy them. Yahweh our God will destroy them.
Jeremiah 23:12
"{Therefore} their way will be to them like the slippery places, they will be pushed in the darkness, and they will fall into it, for I will bring disaster on them [in] the year of their punishment," {declares} Yahweh.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who will pay the penalty [of] eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,