Psalms 73:18 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 73:18

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

KJV

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ASV

Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

WEB

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

YLT

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

DBT

Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Jeremiah 23:12
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.
Psalms 35:6
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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), where they cannot long keep footing; but, when they offer to climb higher, that very attempt will be the occasion of their sliding and falling. Their prosperity has no firm ground; it is not built upon God's favour or his promise; and they have not the satisfaction of feeling that it rests on firm ground. Their destruction is sure, and sudden, and very great.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

their end--future (Ps 37:37, 38), which is dismal and terribly sudden (Pr 1:27; 29:1), aggravated and hastened by terror. As one despises an unsubstantial dream, so God, waking up to judgment (Ps 7:6;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 73:18DEU 32:35 ROM 12:19
PSA 73:182TH 1:9 MAT 25:41
PSA 73:18DEU 32:35 HEB 10:30
PSA 73:18DEU 32:35 NAH 1:2
PSA 73:18JER 23:12 JER 13:16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 73:18JER 23:12 PRO 4:19
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 73:182TH 1:9 REV 14:10-11
PSA 73:18DEU 32:35 PSA 73:17-19

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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