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King James Version

Psalms 73:19

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Blindness;   Death;   Envy;   Happiness;   Integrity;   Meditation;   Murmuring;   Rich, the;   Temptation;   Wicked (People);   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Courage-Fear;   Desolation of the Wicked;   Terror;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions of the Wicked, the;   Death of the Wicked, the;   Dreams;   Envy;   Fear, Unholy;   Happiness of the Wicked, the;   Punishment of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Suffering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Eschatology;   Ethics;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Sin;   Wealth;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pashur;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judas;   Judgment the day of;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Consume;   Death;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Punishment, Everlasting;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 21;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Geneva Bible (1587)
How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,
Christian Standard Bible®
How suddenly they become a desolation!They come to an end, swept away by terrors.
Hebrew Names Version
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Easy-to-Read Version
Trouble can come suddenly, and they will be ruined. Terrible things can happen to them, and they will be finished.
Amplified Bible
How they are destroyed in a moment! They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!
American Standard Version
How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Contemporary English Version
They will be terrified, suddenly swept away and no longer there.
Complete Jewish Bible
How suddenly they are destroyed, swept away by terrors!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wholly consumed by terrors.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.
English Revised Version
How are they become a desolation in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Berean Standard Bible
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
Lexham English Bible
How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.
Literal Translation
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away with terrors!
New Century Version
They are destroyed in a moment; they are swept away by terrors.
New English Translation
How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
New King James Version
Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
New Living Translation
In an instant they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors.
New Life Bible
How they are destroyed right away! They come to an end with much fear.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How have they become desolate, as in a moment! They have ceased - come to an end, by reason of calamities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(72-19) How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
George Lamsa Translation
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Good News Translation
They are instantly destroyed; they go down to a horrible end.
New American Standard Bible
How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread.
New Revised Standard
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Darby Translation
How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hou ben thei maad into desolacioun; thei failiden sodeynli, thei perischiden for her wickidnesse.
Young's Literal Translation
How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.
World English Bible
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Revised Standard Version
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Update Bible Version
How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are completely consumed with terrors.
Webster's Bible Translation
How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Bible in Basic English
How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O how sodenly do they consume, perish, & come to a fearfull ende?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
Legacy Standard Bible
How they become desolate in a moment!They are completely swept away by terrors!

Contextual Overview

15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How: Psalms 58:9, Job 20:5, Isaiah 30:13, Acts 2:23, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Revelation 18:10

they are: Numbers 17:12, Numbers 17:13, 1 Samuel 28:20, Job 15:21, Job 20:23-25, Proverbs 28:1, Isaiah 21:3, Isaiah 21:4, Daniel 5:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:5 - in a moment Exodus 40:32 - as the Lord Leviticus 26:16 - terror Numbers 16:21 - that I may Judges 3:17 - a very fat Judges 20:21 - destroyed 1 Samuel 28:5 - he was afraid 2 Samuel 15:10 - reigneth 2 Chronicles 22:12 - Athaliah Esther 7:9 - Hang him thereon Job 8:18 - he Job 18:11 - Terrors Job 20:25 - terrors Job 21:9 - safe from fear Job 24:17 - in the terrors Job 24:24 - are exalted Job 27:19 - he openeth Job 34:20 - a moment Psalms 40:15 - desolate Psalms 49:20 - is like Psalms 64:7 - suddenly Psalms 147:6 - he casteth Proverbs 3:25 - neither Proverbs 12:7 - wicked Ecclesiastes 3:18 - concerning Isaiah 28:4 - shall be Isaiah 47:9 - in a moment Jeremiah 20:4 - I will make Luke 4:5 - in Luke 9:7 - Herod Luke 12:20 - God 1 Corinthians 15:52 - a moment 2 Corinthians 5:11 - the terror Hebrews 2:15 - through 1 John 4:18 - fear hath

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment?.... Very suddenly, which is often the case of wicked men, who cry Peace and safety, and sudden destruction comes upon them, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, so as in a moment were the punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Pharaoh and his host, and of Korah and his company, Lamentations 4:6, the words are expressed with admiration, as wondering at the sudden and amazing turn of things:

they are utterly consumed with terrors: their destruction is not only sudden, but entire; it is like the breaking in pieces of a potter's vessel; a shard of which cannot be gathered up and used, or like the casting of a millstone into the sea, which will never rise more; such will be the destruction of antichrist; see Revelation 2:27 and this is done "with terrors"; either by terrible judgments inflicted on them from without; or with terrors inwardly seizing upon their minds and consciences; as, at the time of temporal calamities, or at death, however at judgment, when the awful sentence will be pronounced upon them; see Job 27:20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! - How suddenly and unexpectedly does destruction come upon them! Nothing can be argued from their apparent prosperity, for there is no ground of security in “that,” no basis for an argument that it will continue. The end must be seen in order to form a correct estimate on the subject, and that end may soon come. Compare the notes at Job 15:20-21.

They are utterly consumed with terrors - literally, “they perish; they are destroyed by terrors;” that is, by terrible things, or by things suited to produce terror in the mind. The idea is not that they are destroyed by their own fears, but that things come upon them which are suited to overwhelm the soul, and that by those things they are utterly destroyed. It is by this result that we are to determine in regard to the equity of the divine administration, and not by their prosperity and their apparent safety.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 73:19. Are they brought into desolation — This is often a literal fact. I have known several cases where persons, very rich, have by sudden losses been brought into desolation as in a moment; in consequence of which they were utterly consumed in terrors.


 
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