Psalms 73:19

What does Psalms 73:19 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 73:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended--consumed from terrors.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

Context

v.18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

v.19This passage

v.20As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 15:21

    A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

  • Isaiah 21:3

    Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

  • Isaiah 47:11

    Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou knowest not.

  • Isaiah 30:13

    therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.

  • 1 Samuel 28:20

    Then Saul fell straightway his full length upon the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

  • Acts 2:23

    him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:

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